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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Ranger :: Ranger (n.) A dog that beats the ground in search of game.
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To tread, as a path..
Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance..
Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To separate the woody fiber from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Squash :: Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
Jerker :: Jerker (n.) A beater.
Cane :: Cane (v. t.) To beat with a cane.
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
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..
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Rammer :: Rammer (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.
Suggillation :: Suggillate (v. t.) To beat livid, or black and blue..
Truncheon :: Truncheon (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.
Stamp :: Stamp (v. t.) A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing..
Sphygmometer :: Sphygmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the strength of the pulse beat; a sphygmograph.
Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..
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