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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Lash :: Lash (v. t.) To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash; as, a whale lashes the sea with his tail..
Malleate :: Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Beat :: Beat (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit..
Belam :: Belam (v. t.) To beat or bang.
Plangent :: Plangent (a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave..
Whaler :: Whaler (n.) One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size..
Wap :: Wap (v. t. & i.) To beat; to whap.
Pathless :: Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods..
Bet :: Bet () imp. & p. p. of Beat.
Winnew :: Winnew (n.) To beat with wings, or as with wings..
Pound :: Pound (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness..
Trabeation :: Trabeation (n.) Same as Entablature.
Jacket :: Jacket (v. t.) To thrash; to beat.
Heaven :: Heaven (v. t.) To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify..
Flap :: Flap (n.) To beat with a flap; to strike.
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..
Beat :: Beat (imp.) of Bea.
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Dead-stroke :: Dead-stroke (a.) Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat.
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