Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat..

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Launder :: Launder (n.) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore..
Gold-beaten :: Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded.
Squash :: Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
Mauling :: Mauling (n.) A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist..
Rebut :: Rebut (v. t.) To drive or beat back; to repulse.
Castanets :: Castanets (n. pl.) Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars..
Crabeater :: Crabeater (n.) The cobia.
Sphygmogram :: Sphygmogram (n.) A tracing, called a pulse tracing, consisting of a series of curves corresponding with the beats of the heart, obtained by the application of the sphygmograph..
Patrol :: Patrol (v. i.) To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Tuck :: Tuck (n.) The beat of a drum.
Battue :: Battue (v. t.) The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game..
Fainting :: Fainting (n.) Syncope, or loss of consciousness owing to a sudden arrest of the blood supply to the brain, the face becoming pallid, the respiration feeble, and the heat's beat weak..
Winter-beaten :: Winter-beaten (a.) Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter.
To- :: To- (prep.) An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv..
Dish :: Dish (v. t.) To frustrate; to beat; to ruin.
Get :: Get (v. i.) To arrive at, or bring one's self into, a state, condition, or position; to come to be; to become; -- with a following adjective or past participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected..
Mill :: Mill (n.) To beat with the fists.
Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap..
General :: General (a.) The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To injure, as by beating; to pommel..
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