BPage 110
- English Word Beat Definition 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.
- English Word Beat Definition A stroke; a blow.
- English Word Beat Definition A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
- English Word Beat Definition 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.
- English Word Beat Definition A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
- English Word Beat Definition 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.
- English Word Beat Definition A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
- English Word Beat Definition A place of habitual or frequent resort.
- English Word Beat Definition A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
- English Word Beat Definition Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
- English Word Beaten Definition of Beat
- English Word Beaten Definition Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
- English Word Beaten Definition Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
- English Word Beaten Definition Exhausted; tired out.
- English Word Beaten Definition Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
- English Word Beaten Definition Tried; practiced.
- English Word Beater Definition One who, or that which, beats.
- English Word Beater Definition A person who beats up game for the hunters.
- English Word Beath Definition To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
- English Word Beatific Definition Alt. of Beatifical