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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Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..
Belabor :: Belabor (v. t.) To beat soundly; to cudgel.
Beat :: Beat (n.) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament..
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..
Mall :: Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Undulation :: Undulation (n.) The pulsation caused by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison; -- called also beat.
Tum-tum :: Tum-tum (n.) A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march..
Leather :: Leather (v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather..
Pulsate :: Pulsate (v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart..
Against :: Against (prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof..
Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
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..
Swaddlebill :: Swaddle (v. t.) To beat; to cudgel.
Beat :: 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..
Steeled :: Steel (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
Train :: Train (v.) The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.
Clapcake :: Clapcake (n.) Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin.
Swap :: Swap (v. t.) To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap..
Drumstick :: Drumstick (n.) A stick with which a drum is beaten.
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