| • | of Beat |
| • | of Beat |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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 transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat. |
| • | A place of habitual or frequent resort. |
| • | A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat. |
| • | Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted. |
