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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Lapstone :: Lapstone (n.) A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather..
Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To soak; also, to beat severely..
Measure :: Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats..
Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his men or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person..
Drum :: Drum (v. i.) To beat with the fingers, as with drumsticks; to beat with a rapid succession of strokes; to make a noise like that of a beaten drum; as, the ruffed grouse drums with his wings..
Pheese :: Pheese (v. t.) To comb; also, to beat; to worry..
Pulverize :: Pulverize (v. t.) To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued..
Dowse :: Dowse (v. t.) To beat or thrash.
Beatification :: Beatification (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of the blessed, or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization..
Weld :: Weld (v. t.) To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion..
Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Cudgeler :: Cudgeler (n.) One who beats with a cudgel.
Rebate :: Rebate (v. t.) To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise..
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) An etheostomoid fish of the southern United States (Hadropterus nigrofasciatus).
Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew; hence, to beat; to scourge..
Polonaise :: Polonaise (n.) A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca..
To-beat :: To-beat (v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely.
Hammer :: Hammer (v. t.) To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Bastinado :: Bastinado (v. t.) To beat with a stick or cudgel, especially on the soles of the feet..
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