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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Stock :: Stock (n.) The beater of a fulling mill.
Truncheon :: Truncheon (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.
Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
Larrup :: Larrup (v. t.) To beat or flog soundly.
Deadbeat :: Deadbeat (a.) Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely..
Pommel :: Pommel (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists..
Plangency :: Plangency (n.) The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound.
Bang :: Bang (v. t.) To beat or thump, or to cause ( something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it..
Beat :: Beat (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament..
Mauling :: Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist..
Tick :: Tick (n.) A quick, audible beat, as of a clock..
Beater :: Beater (n.) One who, or that which, beats..
Pant :: Pant (v. i.) To beat with unnatural violence or rapidity; to palpitate, or throb; -- said of the heart..
Nirvana :: Nirvana (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism..
Ribroast :: Ribroast (v. t.) To beat soundly.
Foliate :: Foliate (v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate..
Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drub.
Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc..
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