miter
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Its flower is mostly black and topped with horn-like appendages that rise from a dome-shaped "miter."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
By 08:30, archbishops and bishops will gather in the Constantine Wing, adjacent to the basilica, wearing liturgical clothes including simple white miter.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
Using your miter saw or miter box, cut your molding pieces with 45-degree angled edges, which allows them to fit together into the final box shape.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
He’s the sort who stops to admire an original newel post or a carpenter’s miter work from 200 years ago.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
He holds his miter on his lap, exposing a head of fine silvery hair.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
And by 09:00, patriarchs and cardinals will congregate in Saint Sebastian Chapel, in the basilica, wearing white damask miters.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2025
To close the gaps between the molding miters and the wall, apply a thin line of paintable caulk.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2023
Once the strip is loose, you might find that it is still caught at the corners; molding is often cut slightly long so the pieces spring into place at the miters, ensuring a tight joint.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
They had to be able to see the altar, but needed to be positioned to the side so that their miters — the tall ceremonial hats — didn’t block the view for other congregants.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2015
The far-off world, at last, Breathes free; the hand that shook its thrones, And to the earth its miters cast, Lies powerless now beneath these stones.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
The collection was then tucked away into FIDM’s archives until Frank’s colleague posted one of the blazers on Instagram, highlighting the garment’s mesh of “Victorian-style piecework and embroidery with precision mitered tailoring.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025
Panel doors are connected by “mortise-and-tenon or mitered joints, and mullions that run vertically between the rails.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2021
Begin a little way away from the mitered corner, not right at it.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2020
According to Father Greeley, it is being held together by mitered pinheads.
From Time Magazine Archive
All mitered cuts because, he announced, The Amazing Deck would be octagonal.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
The mitering of lace or embroidery is often necessary in making collars and in finishing corners.
From Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson
Fit these base pieces to place, mitering the joints.
From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by H. H. (Henry Haven) Windsor
Run it in a straight line, on the wall against the ceiling wherever possible, mitering the joints neatly.
From Electricity for the farm Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water wheel or farm engine by Frederick Irving Anderson
The rabbets are cut out with a rabbeting-plane before mitering and assembling.
From Handwork in Wood by William Noyes
The table is provided with a bevel slitting gauge s′, and cross cut or mitering gauge x′, Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
