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Firk :: Firk (v. t.) To beat; to strike; to chastise.

Beat :: Beat (p. p.) of Bea.

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..

Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..

Dead Beat :: Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7..

Stock :: Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.

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..

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..

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..

Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..

Pathless :: Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods..

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..

Stramash :: Stramash (v. t.) To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy..

Bet :: Bet () imp. & p. p. of Beat.

Dry-beat :: Dry-beat (v. t.) To beat severely.

Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To beat, pound, or together..

Clapcake :: Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Bat :: Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.

Smite :: Smite (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument..

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