Helen Fenton

Bevel: Definition and part of speech

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Bevel

  1. a. Hence: Morally distorted; not upright.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. An instrument consisting of two rules or arms, jointed together at one end, and opening to any angle, for adjusting the surfaces of work to the same or a given inclination; — called also a bevel square.
  4. a. Having the slant of a bevel; slanting.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Betrap: Definition and part of speech

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Betrap

  1. v. t. To put trappings on; to clothe; to deck.
  2. v. t. To draw into, or catch in, a trap; to insnare; to circumvent.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Betray: Definition and part of speech

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Betray

  1. v. t. To show or to indicate; — said of what is not obvious at first, or would otherwise be concealed.
  2. v. t. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city.
  3. v. t. To prove faithless or treacherous to, as to a trust or one who trusts; to be false to; to deceive; as, to betray a person or a cause.
  4. v. t. To violate the confidence of, by disclosing a secret, or that which one is bound in honor not to make known.
  5. v. t. To disclose or discover, as something which prudence would conceal; to reveal unintentionally.
  6. v. t. To mislead; to expose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin.
  7. v. t. To lead astray, as a maiden; to seduce (as under promise of marriage) and then abandon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.