| Beat (beat) |
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| v. t. | (b***emacr]t) |
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| Beat |
| [imp. Beat; p. p. Beat,
Beaten ((?)); p. pr. *** vb. n. Beating.]
[OE. beaten, beten, AS. beá]tan; akin to Icel.
bauta, OHG. < |
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.
To punish by blows; to thrash.
To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied
with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing
game.
To dash against, or strike, as with water or
wind.
To tread, as a path.
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race,
game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; --
often with out.
To exercise severely; to perplex; to
trouble.
To give the signal for, by beat of
drum; to sound by beat of drum; as, to beat an alarm, a charge, a
parley, a retreat; to beat the general, the reveille, the tattoo.
See Alarm, Charge, Parley, etc.
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To strike
repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or
loudly.
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall
with force; to strike anything, as rain, wind, and waves do.
To be in agitation or doubt.
To make progress against the
wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums
beat.
To make a succession of strokes on
a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their
quarters.
To sound with more or
less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a
pulsating effect] -- said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not
perfectly in unison.
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A
stroke; a blow.
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a
beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
The rise or
fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the
measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the
unit.
A sudden swelling or
reë]nforcement 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.
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Weary; tired; fatigued;
exhausted.
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One
that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of
him.
The act of one that beats a person or
thing
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