Beazle

Quick meaning: Beazle is a noun meaning (rare) A bezel (collet of a ring, the rim which encloses the jewel and into which the jewel is set).

Meaning

(rare) A bezel (collet of a ring, the rim which encloses the jewel and into which the jewel is set).

Example Sentences

The beazle or collet of a ring, that which contains the apple of the eye, a kind of ornament of women.

The figures upon seals were as various as among us, except that the ancients used figures of their ancestors, friends, or even themselves. In Stosch is a symbolical ring, supported by two cornucopias. Upon the beazle is a mask in relief, and in the circle of the ring a crescent and star.

Now let us suppose that the placenta is inserted on one of these muscles, which is not at all uncommon, and that the circular fibres, the most remote from the orifice of the tube, should contract spasmodically, the after-birth will be enclosed in this species of cavity, as a stone in the beazle of a ring (dans le chaton d'une bague).

Word Forms

• beazles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bezel, bezil, collet, bead, beag, beading.

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