Bible Dictionaries
Beat

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The act of one that beats a person or thing

(2):

(n.) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

(3):

(n.) One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him.

(4):

(n.) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively.

(5):

(n.) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; a scoop.

(6):

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

(7):

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

(8):

(imp.) of Beat

(9):

(p. p.) of Beat

(10):

(n.) A stroke; a blow.

(11):

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

(12):

(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.

(13):

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

(14):

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

(15):

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

(16):

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

(17):

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

(18):

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

(19):

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

(20):

(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.

(21):

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

(22):

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

(23):

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

(24):

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

(25):

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

(26):

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

(27):

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

(28):

(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.

(29):

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

(30):

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

(31):

(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.

(32):

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

(33):

(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.