These are the meanings of the letters BEATI when you unscramble them.
-
Abet (v. t.)
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; -- used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection.
-
Abet (v. t.)
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
-
Abet (v. t.)
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
-
Abet (n.)
Act of abetting; aid.
-
Bait (v. i.)
Any substance, esp. food, used in catching fish, or other animals, by alluring them to a hook, snare, inclosure, or net.
-
Bait (v. i.)
Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation.
-
Bait (v. i.)
A portion of food or drink, as a refreshment taken on a journey; also, a stop for rest and refreshment.
-
Bait (v. i.)
A light or hasty luncheon.
-
Bait (v. t.)
To provoke and harass; esp., to harass or torment for sport; as, to bait a bear with dogs; to bait a bull.
-
Bait (v. t.)
To give a portion of food and drink to, upon the road; as, to bait horses.
-
Bait (v. t.)
To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook.
-
Bait (v. i.)
To stop to take a portion of food and drink for refreshment of one's self or one's beasts, on a journey.
-
Bait (v. i.)
To flap the wings; to flutter as if to fly; or to hover, as a hawk when she stoops to her prey.
-
Bate (n.)
Strife; contention.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To leave out; to except.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To remove.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To deprive of.
-
Bate (v. i.)
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
-
Bate (v. i.)
To waste away.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To attack; to bait.
-
Bate ()
imp. of Bite.
-
Bate (v. i.)
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
-
Bate (n.)
See 2d Bath.
-
Bate (n.)
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
-
Bate (v. t.)
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
-
Beat (imp.)
of Beat
-
Beat (p. p.)
of 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.
-
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 dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
-
Beat (v. t.)
To tread, as a path.
-
Beat (v. t.)
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
-
Beat (v. t.)
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
-
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. i.)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
-
Beat (v. i.)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
-
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 be in agitation or doubt.
-
Beat (v. i.)
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
-
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 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 (n.)
A stroke; a blow.
-
Beat (n.)
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
-
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 (n.)
A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
-
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 (v. i.)
A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
-
Beat (v. i.)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
-
Beat (v. i.)
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
-
Beat (a.)
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
-
Bite (v. t.)
To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
-
Bite (v. t.)
To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
-
Bite (v. t.)
To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
-
Bite (v. t.)
To cheat; to trick; to take in.
-
Bite (v. t.)
To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
-
Bite (v. i.)
To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
-
Bite (v. i.)
To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
-
Bite (v. i.)
To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
-
Bite (v. i.)
To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
-
Bite (v. i.)
To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
-
Bite (v.)
The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
-
Bite (v.)
The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
-
Bite (v.)
The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
-
Bite (v.)
A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
-
Bite (v.)
The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
-
Bite (v.)
A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
-
Bite (v.)
A sharper; one who cheats.
-
Bite (v.)
A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.