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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Stramash :: Stram (v. t.) To dash down; to beat.
Plangent :: Plangent (a.) Beating; dashing, as a wave..
Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet..
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt..
Pulsator :: Pulsator (n.) A beater; a striker.
Trabeated :: Trabeated (a.) Furnished with an entablature.
Pathless :: Pathless (a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods..
Foliature :: Foliature (n.) The state of being beaten into foil.
Bate :: Bate (v. t.) To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
Assembly :: Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Pulsator :: Pulsator (n.) That which beats or throbs in working.
Omelet :: Omelet (n.) Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in a frying pan; as, a plain omelet..
Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
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..
Forge :: Forge (n.) The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies.
To-beat :: To-beat (v. t.) To beat thoroughly or severely.
Beatitude :: Beatitude (n.) Felicity of the highest kind; consummate bliss.
Lathe :: Lathe (n.) The movable swing frame of a loom, carrying the reed for separating the warp threads and beating up the weft; -- called also lay and batten..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..
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