BEAT

Beat ( a. ) - Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.

Beat ( imp. ) - of Beat

Beat ( n. ) - A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.

Beat ( n. ) - A stroke; a blow.

Beat ( n. ) - 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.

Beat ( n. ) - A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.

Beat ( n. ) - 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.

Beat ( p. p. ) - of Beat

Beat ( v. i. ) - A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.

Beat ( v. i. ) - A place of habitual or frequent resort.

Beat ( v. i. ) - A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To be in agitation or doubt.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To move with pulsation or throbbing.

Beat ( v. i. ) - 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.

Beat ( v. i. ) - To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.

Beat ( v. t. ) - 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.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To punish by blows; to thrash.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.

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.

Beat ( v. t. ) - To tread, as a path.