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..
Beat :: Beat (imp.) of Bea.
Pound :: Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
Thump :: Thump (v. t.) To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound..
Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The unlawful beating of another. It includes every willful, angry and violent, or negligent touching of another's person or clothes, or anything attached to his person or held by him..
Rappel :: Rappel (n.) The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.
Trabeation :: Trabeation (n.) Same as Entablature.
Hollow :: Hollow (adv.) Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv..
Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar..
Dead Beat :: Dead beat () See Beat, n., 7..
Lather :: Lather (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog..
Noctograph :: Noctograph (n.) An instrument or register which records the presence of watchmen on their beats.
Time :: Time (v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
Pulsate :: Pulsate (v.) To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart..
Mash :: Mash (v. t.) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort..
Belam :: Belam (v. t.) To beat or bang.
Beatificate :: Beatificate (v. t.) To beatify.
Palpitation :: Palpitation (n.) A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease..
Tread :: Tread (v. t.) To beat or press with the feet; as, to tread a path; to tread land when too light; a well-trodden path..
Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum..
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