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▪ I. bezel|ˈbɛzəl|
Forms: 7 bezell, -ill, beasel, bizel, bezle, 7–8 beazil, 8 bezil, bazil, (9 beazel), 7– basil, bezel, 8– bezil.
[a. OF. *besel, *bezel, in mod.F. biseau, bizeau (cf. Sp. bisel), also basile; of unknown origin: it may be dim. of bis, bez, or contain that word. (It does not represent med.L. bisalus.) Cf. belef, bevel.]
1. A slope, a sloping edge or face: esp. that of a chisel or other cutting tool (commonly basil.)
1611Cotgr., Biseau, a bezle, bezeling, or scuing; such a slopenesse, or slope form, as is in the point of an yron leauer, chizle, &c. 1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (J.) These chissels are not ground to such a basil as the joiner's chissels. 1721Bailey, Basil is the Sloping edge of a chissel. 1823Nicholson Pract. Build. 225 Edge-tools are sharpened, by applying the basil to the convex surface [of a grind-stone].
2. The oblique sides or faces of a cut gem; spec. the various oblique faces and edges of a brilliant, which lie round the ‘table’ or large central plane on the upper surface, comprising the 8 star-facets, 16 skill-facets, and 8 lozenges. [Cf. Sp. bisel ‘edge of a looking-glass, or crystal plate.’]
1839–75Ure Dict. Arts II. 25 Upper skill-facets are wrought on the lower part of the bezil, and terminate in the girdle; star-facets are wrought on the upper part of the bezil, and terminate in the table; lozenges are formed by the meeting of the skill- and star-facets on the bezil.
3. ‘The groove and projecting flange or lip by which the crystal of a watch or the stone of a jewel is retained in its setting.’
1616Bullokar, Bezill. 1623Cockeram, Bezell, the broad place of a Ring where the stone is set. 1658Rowland Mouffet's Theat. Ins. 968 In the uttermost part of the wings, as if it were four Adamants glistering in a beazil of Hyacinth. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1499/4 One silver [watch]..the hours in form of Diamonds, the Out-case holes with Bizels for the sound of the Bell. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) iv. s.v. Gyges, When he turned the beazil to the palm of the hand. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. 496 The partitions that separate the lenses, or rather Bezels in which they are set. 1877W. Jones Finger-ring 12 A long oval bezel chased in intaglio.
4. Comb. bezelwise adv., sloping, bevelled.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Chimney, The Sides of the Frame and Trap are made slope or bezelwise.
▪ II. bezel, v.|ˈbɛzəl|
Also 7 basil.
[f. prec. n.]
trans. To grind (a tool) down to an edge; to cut to a sloping edge, to bevel.
1677Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 185 The Chissels..are Basil'd away on both the flat sides. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 122 Instead of rabbiting the Frame and Trap-Door, let both be bezell'd or sloap'd.
▪ III. bezel(l
variant of bezzle v. Obs. |