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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..

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..

Jar :: Jar (v. t.) To tick; to beat; to mark or tell off.

Measure :: Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats..

Tum-tum :: Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.

Souffle :: Souffle (n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence..

Club :: Club (v. t.) To beat with a club.

Recussion :: Recussion (n.) The act of beating or striking back.

Tremolo :: Tremolo (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant..

Flail :: Flail (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely..

Dicrotism :: Dicrotism (n.) A condition in which there are two beats or waves of the arterial pulse to each beat of the heart.

Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..

Knuckle :: Knuckle (v. t.) To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.

Laveer :: Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.

Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

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..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his men or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person..

Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Bandy :: Bandy (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely..

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