Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison..

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To-beat :: To-beat (v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely.
Strap :: Strap (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
Paw :: Paw (v. t.) To scrape or beat with the forefoot.
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..
Flog :: Flog (v. t.) To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.
Dowse :: Dowse (v. t.) To beat or thrash.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Bet :: Bet () imp. & p. p. of Beat.
Bastinado :: Bastinado (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet..
Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To beat, pound, or together..
Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door..
Dulcimer :: Dulcimer (n.) An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer..
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..
Lam :: Lam (v. t.) To beat soundly; to thrash.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A throb or beat, as of the heart..
Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Maul :: Maul (v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.
Cover :: Cover (n.) The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover..
Saltation :: Saltation (n.) Beating or palpitation; as, the saltation of the great artery..
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