Definition of beat

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Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..

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Tombac :: Tombac (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac..
Swinglebar :: Swingle (n.) A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long, with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand..
Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely..
Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent..
To- :: To- (prep.) An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv..
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..
Strap :: Strap (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
Lam :: Lam (v. t.) To beat soundly; to thrash.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Drumbeat :: Drumbeat (n.) The sound of a beaten drum; drum music.
Dub :: Dub (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
Nubble :: Nubble (v. t.) To beat or bruise with the fist.
Fob :: Fob (v.t.) To beat; to maul.
Browbeat :: Browbeat (v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses..
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Beatification.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..
Suggillation :: Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue..
Crab :: Crab (v. t.) To beat with a crabstick.
Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..
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