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A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.

The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as a plane, is ground. Grier.

the beam (Naut.), in an arc of the horizon between a line that crosses the ship at right angles, or in the direction of her beams, and that point of the compass toward which her stern is directed. -- Beam center (Mach.), the fulcrum or pin on which the working beam of an engine vibrates. -- Beam compass, an instrume…

To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

Any angle other than a right angle; the angle which one surface makes with another when they are not at right angles; the slant or inclination of such surface; as, to give a bevel to the edge of a table or a stone slab; the bevel of a piece of timber.

he two wheels working together lie in different planes, and have their teeth cut at right angles to the surfaces of two cones whose apices coincide with the point where the axes of the wheels would meet.

Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.

Notched with an angle like that inclosed by a carpenter's bevel; -- said of a partition line of a shield.

A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.

Having two angles or corners.

To contend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

lar micrometer (often called a bifilar), an instrument form measuring minute distances or angles by means of two very minute threads (usually spider lines), one of which, at least, is movable; -- more commonly called a filar micrometer.

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

A prism whose refracting angle is very nearly 180 degrees.

Containing or having two right angles; as, a birectangular spherical triangle.

One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight line which bisects an angle.