Definition of beat

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Beat (n.) A sudden swelling or reenforcement of a sound, recurring at regular intervals, and produced by the interference of sound waves of slightly different periods of vibrations; applied also, by analogy, to other kinds of wave motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8..

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Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Tried; practiced.
Beating :: Beating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bea.
Bushwhacker :: Bushwhacker (n.) One accustomed to beat about, or travel through, bushes..
Putty :: Putty (n.) A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes..
Round :: Round (n.) A course ending where it began; a circuit; a beat; especially, one freguently or regulary traversed; also, the act of traversing a circuit; as, a watchman's round; the rounds of the postman..
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..
Truncheon :: Truncheon (v. t.) To beat with a truncheon.
Browbeat :: Browbeat (imp.) of Browbea.
Trabeated :: Trabeated (a.) Furnished with an entablature.
Dish :: Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Contuse :: Contuse (v. t.) To beat, pound, or together..
Pulsative :: Pulsative (a.) Beating; throbbing.
Surbedded :: Surbeat (v. t.) Same as Surbate.
Beat :: Beat (imp.) of Bea.
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
Nocake :: Nocake (n.) Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians..
Belace :: Belace (v. t.) To beat with a strap. See Lace.
Pulsator :: Pulsator (n.) That which beats or throbs in working.
Wap :: Wap (n.) A blow or beating; a whap.
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