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Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for detecting deceptive statements by a subject, by measuring several physiological states of the subject, such as pulse, heartbeat, and sweating. The instrument records these parameters on a strip of paper while the subject is asked questions designed to elicit emotional responses when the subject tries to deceive the interrogator. Also called lie detector.

Protonotary :: Protonotary (n.) Formerly, one who had the charge of writing the acts of the martyrs, and the circumstances of their death; now, one of twelve persons, constituting a college in the Roman Curia, whose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications..

Stone :: Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones..

Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff..

Double-beat Valve :: Double-beat valve () See under Valve.

Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).

Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet..

Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To beat (eggs, cream, or the like) into a froth, as with a whisk, fork, or the like..

Gold-beaten :: Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.

Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..

Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of the blessed and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized..

Chalybeate :: Chalybeate (a.) Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs..

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.

Rebut :: Rebut (v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.

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