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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Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..
Bepommel :: Bepommel (v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing..
Battuta :: Battuta (n.) The measuring of time by beating.
Profligate :: Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
Cobia :: Cobia (n.) An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish..
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.
Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To beat or bruise; to drub; -- said of persons.
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To move with pulsation or throbbing.
Brain :: Brain (v. t.) To dash out the brains of; to kill by beating out the brains. Hence, Fig.: To destroy; to put an end to; to defeat..
Patrol :: Patrol (v.) t To go the rounds of, as a sentry, guard, or policeman; as, to patrol a frontier; to patrol a beat..
Beat :: 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..
Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to hammer iron..
Transverberate :: Transverberate (v. t.) To beat or strike through.
Rataplan :: Rataplan (n.) The iterative sound of beating a drum, or of a galloping horse..
Dub :: Dub (v. i.) To make a noise by brisk drumbeats.
Bat :: Bat (v. t.) To strike or hit with a bat or a pole; to cudgel; to beat.
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..
Tew :: Tew (v.) Hence, to beat; to scourge; also, to pull about; to maul; to tease; to vex..
Beat :: Beat (imp.) of Bea.
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