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A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

l appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

The roll of the drum which calls the troops together; as, to beat the general.

t participle belonging to the subject of the verb; as, to get sober; to get awake; to get beaten; to get elected. To get rid of fools and scoundrels. Pope. His chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Coleridge.

d came no farther. Bunyan. -- To give in, to yield; to succumb; to acknowledge one's self beaten; to cease opposition. The Scots battalion was enforced to give in. Hayward. This consideration may induce a translator to give in to those general phrases. Pope. -- To give off, to cease; to forbear. [Obs.] Locke. -- To gi…

lgam, a mineral, found in Columbia and California, composed of gold and mercury. -- Gold beater, one whose occupation is to beat gold into gold leaf. -- Gold beater's skin, the prepared outside membrane of the large intestine of the ox, used for separating the leaves of metal during the process of gold-beating. -- G…

Queen Victoria pigeon (Goura Victoria) and the crowned pigeon (G. coronata) are among the beat known species.

Ridden by a hag or witch; hence, afflicted with nightmare. Beattie. Cheyne.

An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle. With busy hammers closing rivets up. Shak.

To place in happiness or bliss, as if in heaven; to beatify. [R.] We are happy as the bird whose nest Is heavened in the hush of purple hills. G. Massey.

Like hemp. "Beat into a hempen state." Cook.

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

ny demon; a contemptible evil worker. To mingle in the clamorous fray Of squabbling imps. Beattie.

o the ear or the eye of modesty any of the indecencies I allude to, are pests of society. Beattie.

compensation for, as for that which is lost; to make whole; to reimburse; to compensate. Beattie.

the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.

ess. Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie.