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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Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..
Against :: Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof..
Mill :: Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To punish with a whip, scourge, or rod; to flog; to beat; as, to whip a vagrant; to whip one with thirty nine lashes; to whip a perverse boy..
Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
Cheapen :: Cheapen (a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Browbeat :: Browbeat (imp.) of Browbea.
Battuta :: Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.
Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Tried; practiced.
Runway :: Runway (n.) The beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds.
Pulse :: Pulse (v. i.) To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb..
Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
Smith :: Smith (n.) To beat into shape; to forge.
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Lash :: Lash (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail..
Metalline :: Metalline (a.) Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water..
Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..
Beatified :: Beatified (imp. & p. p.) of Beatif.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..
Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
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