These are the meanings of the letters BEMAT when you unscramble them.
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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.
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Abet (v. t.)
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense.
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Abet (v. t.)
To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
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Abet (n.)
Act of abetting; aid.
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Bate (n.)
Strife; contention.
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Bate (v. t.)
To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
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Bate (v. t.)
To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
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Bate (v. t.)
To leave out; to except.
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Bate (v. t.)
To remove.
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Bate (v. t.)
To deprive of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To remit or retrench a part; -- with of.
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Bate (v. i.)
To waste away.
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Bate (v. t.)
To attack; to bait.
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Bate ()
imp. of Bite.
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Bate (v. i.)
To flutter as a hawk; to bait.
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Bate (n.)
See 2d Bath.
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Bate (n.)
An alkaline solution consisting of the dung of certain animals; -- employed in the preparation of hides; grainer.
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Bate (v. t.)
To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.
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Beam (n.)
Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
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Beam (n.)
One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship.
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Beam (n.)
The width of a vessel; as, one vessel is said to have more beam than another.
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Beam (n.)
The bar of a balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
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Beam (n.)
The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches.
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Beam (n.)
The pole of a carriage.
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Beam (n.)
A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving; also, the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven; one being called the fore beam, the other the back beam.
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Beam (n.)
The straight part or shank of an anchor.
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Beam (n.)
The main part of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
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Beam (n.)
A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.
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Beam (n.)
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
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Beam (n.)
Fig.: A ray; a gleam; as, a beam of comfort.
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Beam (n.)
One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk; -- called also beam feather.
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Beam (v. t.)
To send forth; to emit; -- followed ordinarily by forth; as, to beam forth light.
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Beam (v. i.)
To emit beams of light.
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Beat (imp.)
of Beat
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Beat (p. p.)
of Beat
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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.
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Beat (v. t.)
To punish by blows; to thrash.
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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.
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Beat (v. t.)
To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.
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Beat (v. t.)
To tread, as a path.
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Beat (v. t.)
To overcome in a battle, contest, strife, race, game, etc.; to vanquish or conquer; to surpass.
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Beat (v. t.)
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out.
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Beat (v. t.)
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
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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.
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Beat (v. i.)
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
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Beat (v. i.)
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
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Beat (v. i.)
To come or act with violence; to dash or fall with force; to strike anything, as, rain, wind, and waves do.
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Beat (v. i.)
To be in agitation or doubt.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a sound when struck; as, the drums beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
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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.
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Beat (n.)
A stroke; a blow.
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Beat (n.)
A recurring stroke; a throb; a pulsation; as, a beat of the heart; the beat of the pulse.
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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.
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Beat (n.)
A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
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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.
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Beat (v. i.)
A round or course which is frequently gone over; as, a watchman's beat.
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Beat (v. i.)
A place of habitual or frequent resort.
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Beat (v. i.)
A cheat or swindler of the lowest grade; -- often emphasized by dead; as, a dead beat.
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Beat (a.)
Weary; tired; fatigued; exhausted.
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Bema (n.)
A platform from which speakers addressed an assembly.
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Bema (n.)
That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.
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Bema (n.)
Erroneously: A pulpit.
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Mate (n.)
The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
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Mate (n.)
Same as Checkmate.
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Mate (a.)
See 2d Mat.
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Mate (v. t.)
To confuse; to confound.
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Mate (v. t.)
To checkmate.
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Mate (n.)
One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
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Mate (n.)
Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
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Mate (n.)
A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
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Mate (n.)
An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
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Mate (v. t.)
To match; to marry.
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Mate (v. t.)
To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
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Mate (v. i.)
To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.
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Meat (n.)
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
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Meat (n.)
The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.
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Meat (n.)
Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.
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Meat (v. t.)
To supply with food.
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Tame (v. t.)
To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
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Tame (superl.)
Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
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Tame (superl.)
Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
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Tame (superl.)
Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
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Tame (a.)
To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
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Tame (a.)
To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.
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Team (n.)
A group of young animals, especially of young ducks; a brood; a litter.
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Team (n.)
Hence, a number of animals moving together.
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Team (n.)
Two or more horses, oxen, or other beasts harnessed to the same vehicle for drawing, as to a coach, wagon, sled, or the like.
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Team (n.)
A number of persons associated together in any work; a gang; especially, a number of persons selected to contend on one side in a match, or a series of matches, in a cricket, football, rowing, etc.
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Team (n.)
A flock of wild ducks.
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Team (n.)
A royalty or privilege granted by royal charter to a lord of a manor, of having, keeping, and judging in his court, his bondmen, neifes, and villains, and their offspring, or suit, that is, goods and chattels, and appurtenances thereto.
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Team (v. i.)
To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
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Team (v. t.)
To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.