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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Curry :: Curry (v. t.) To dress or prepare for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather..
Knuckle :: Knuckle (v. t.) To beat with the knuckles; to pommel.
Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..
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..
Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
Stone :: Stone (n.) To pelt, beat, or kill with stones..
Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..
Lace :: Lace (v. t.) To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
Arsis :: Arsis (n.) The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; -- opposed to thesis..
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..
Drumming :: Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides..
Beatificate :: Beatificate (v. t.) To beatify.
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game..
Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Pitapat :: Pitapat (adv.) In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats.
Malleable :: Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals..
Surbedded :: Surbeat (v. t.) Same as Surbate.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To beat down; to overthrow.
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