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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Browbeat :: Browbeat (v. t.) To depress or bear down with haughty, stern looks, or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions; to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses..
Mill :: Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.
Bastinado :: Bastinado (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet..
Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..
Buffet :: Buffet (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
Bandy :: Bandy (v. t.) To beat to and fro, as a ball in playing at bandy..
Dub :: Dub (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
Pulsatile :: Pulsatile (a.) Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument..
Beast :: Beast (n.) A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc..
Feeze :: Feeze (v. t.) To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry.
Laveer :: Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.
Balance Wheel :: Balance wheel () A wheel which regulates the beats or pulses of a watch or chronometer, answering to the pendulum of a clock; -- often called simply a balance..
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..
Plunger :: Plunger (n.) A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence.
Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..
Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Forge :: Forge (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc..
Loo :: Loo (v. t.) To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.
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