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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Feague :: Feague (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.
Sphygmometer :: Sphygmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To punish by blows; to thrash.
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well..
Bat :: Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
Pallet :: Pallet (n.) A wooden implement used by potters, crucible makers, etc., for forming, beating, and rounding their works. It is oval, round, and of other forms..
Contusion :: Contusion (n.) The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised..
Fustigation :: Fustigation (n.) A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart..
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..
Pulverize :: Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued..
Putty :: Putty (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes..
Squash :: Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap..
Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..
Chap :: Chap (v. t.) To strike; to beat.
Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
Train :: Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Cover :: Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
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