Joinery, the sloping edge of a chisel, or of the iron of a plane. The basil is usually made twelve degrees for soft wood, and for hard wood eighteen.

Basilian, one of the Philippine Isles, S.W. of Mindanao; from which it is separated by the Baslian Strait. It is a fertile island, but is infested by pirates. The village is in Lat. 6° 30'. N. Long. 122° 24'. E.