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An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock.

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.

ng agitation. -- To beat time, to measure or regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. -- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.

Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. --

To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] Drayton.

To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand. His distant friends, he beckons near. Dryden. It beckons you to go away with it. Shak.

The handle of a beetle.

To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.

To give in trust; to commit; to intrust. The keys are to thy hand behight. Spenser.

To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. "Bejeweled hands." Thackeray.

rying in size, open at the bottom and closed at the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top for lifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

A young lady of superior beauty and attractions; a handsome lady, or one who attracts notice in society; a fair lady.

household instrument for blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. Cowper .

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was to bespeak his favor. Sir W. Scott.

To handle; to wear or soil by handling; as books. Poe.

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt. xvii. 22.

A game at cards in which various combinations of cards in the hand, when declared, score points.