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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Frosting :: Frosting (n.) A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Rhythm :: Rhythm (n.) Movement in musical time, with periodical recurrence of accent; the measured beat or pulse which marks the character and expression of the music; symmetry of movement and accent..
Pathless :: Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods..
Cudgeler :: Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a cudgel.
Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing..
Sextuple :: Sextuple (a.) Divisible by six; having six beats; as, sixtuple measure..
Beat :: Beat (n.) A stroke; a blow.
Beatific :: Beatific (a.) Alt. of Beatifica.
Foliation :: Foliation (n.) The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina..
Centreboard :: Centreboard (n.) A movable or sliding keel formed of a broad board or slab of wood or metal which may be raised into a water-tight case amidships, when in shallow water, or may be lowered to increase the area of lateral resistance and prevent leeway when the vessel is beating to windward. It is used in vessels of all sizes along the coast of the United States.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march..
Clapcake :: Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
Feague :: Feague (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.
Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..
Scutch :: Scutch (v. t.) To loosen and dress the fiber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing.
Sylleptic :: Syllepsis (n.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati..
Wallop :: Wallop (v. t.) To beat soundly; to flog; to whip.
Beating :: Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.
Threap :: Threap (v. t.) To beat, or thrash..
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