Definition of beat

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Beat (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit..

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Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat..
Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
Elysian :: Elysian (a.) Pertaining, or the abode of the blessed after death; hence, yielding the highest pleasures; exceedingly delightful; beatific..
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Tried; practiced.
Martial :: Martial (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, iron; chalybeate; as, martial preparations..
Slam :: Slam (v. t.) To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff..
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Chap :: Chap (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind..
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..
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..
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Beat :: Beat (a.) Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
Beat :: Beat (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament..
Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..
Plangency :: Plangency (n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.
Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door..
Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
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