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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Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
War-beaten :: War-beaten (a.) Warworn.
Plate :: Plate (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae..
Train :: Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
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.
Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..
Tew :: Tew (v.) To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw..
Jerker :: Jerker (n.) A beater.
Forge :: Forge (n.) To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal..
Trounce :: Trounce (v. t.) To punish or beat severely; to whip smartly; to flog; to castigate.
Beaten :: Beaten () of Bea.
Beatific :: Beatific (a.) Alt. of Beatifica.
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Transverberate :: Transverberate (v. t.) To beat or strike through.
Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp..
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
Swingle :: Swingle (v. t.) To beat off the tops of without pulling up the roots; -- said of weeds.
Ply :: Ply (v. i.) To work to windward; to beat.
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Braid :: Braid (v. t.) To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations..
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