Definition of beat

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Beat (v. i.) A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat..

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Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well..
Batfowling :: Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise..
Feague :: Feague (v. t.) To beat or whip; to drive.
Unbeat :: Unbeat (v. t.) To deliver from the form or nature of a beast.
Souffle :: Souffle (n.) A side dish served hot from the oven at dinner, made of eggs, milk, and flour or other farinaceous substance, beaten till very light, and flavored with fruits, liquors, or essence..
Baste :: Baste (v. t.) To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Crush :: Crush (v. t.) To overwhelm by pressure or weight; to beat or force down, as by an incumbent weight..
Nirvana :: Nirvana (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism..
Metalline :: Metalline (a.) Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water..
Laveer :: Laveer (v. i.) To beat against the wind; to tack.
Hammer :: Hammer (n.) An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle..
Badger :: Badger (v. t.) To beat down; to cheapen; to barter; to bargain.
Flap :: Flap (v. i.) To move as do wings, or as something broad or loose; to fly with wings beating the air..
Malleation :: Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating..
Browbeating :: Browbeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Browbea.
Flogger :: Flogger (n.) A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung.
Tremolo :: Tremolo (n.) A certain contrivance in an organ, which causes the notes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant..
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Beatification.
Time :: Time (v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..
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