Definition of beat

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Beat (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament..

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Strap :: Strap (v. t.) To beat or chastise with a strap.
Sphygmogram :: Sphygmogram (n.) A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum..
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..
Mill :: Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..
Knock :: Knock (v. i.) To strike or beat with something hard or heavy; to rap; as, to knock with a club; to knock on the door..
Apitpat :: Apitpat (adv.) With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat.
Double-beat Valve :: Double-beat valve () See under Valve.
Dry-beat :: Dry-beat (v. t.) To beat severely.
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Foliate :: Foliate (v. t.) To beat into a leaf, or thin plate..
Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
Wap :: Wap (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.
Bet :: Bet () imp. & p. p. of Beat.
Excerebration :: Excerebration (n.) The act of removing or beating out the brains.
Drum :: Drum (n.) An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band..
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.
Cudgel :: Cudgel (v. t.) To beat with a cudgel.
Beating :: Beating (n.) Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n..
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