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Tact :: Tact (n.) The stroke in beating time.

Pulsator :: Pulsator (n.) That which beats or throbs in working.

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

Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge..

Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..

Lambaste :: Lambaste (v. t.) To beat severely.

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff..

Winter-beaten :: Winter-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.

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

Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..

Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To clean, as flax, by beating it with a swingle, so as to separate the coarse parts and the woody substance from it; to scutch..

Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer..

Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.

Beatific :: Beatific (a.) Alt. of Beatifica.

Beat :: Beat (n.) A stroke; a blow.

Drumming :: Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides..

Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.

Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To beat a drum with strokes so rapid that they can scarcely be distinguished by the ear.

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

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..

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