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enemy, as with regard to a truce. We yield on parley, but are stormed in vain. Dryden. To beat a parley (Mil.), to beat a drum, or sound a trumpet, as a signal for holding a conference with the enemy.

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively. Shak. In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is no death. Prov. xii. 28. We tread the pathway arm in arm. Sir W. Scott.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. Job xxxix. 21.

leeward, as the head of a vessel under sail. -- To pay on. Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] To beat with vigor; to redouble blows. [Colloq.] -- To pay round Etym: [Etymol. uncertain.] (Naut.) To turn the ship's head.

To comb; also, to beat; to worry. [Obs. or Local] See Feaze, v.

In a flutter; with palpitation or quick succession of beats. Lowell. "The fox's heart went pitapat." L'Estrange.

A sound like that of alternating light beats. Also, a pattering of words.

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair. Our troops beat an army in plain fight. Felton.

The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]

Beating; dashing, as a wave. [R.] "The plangent wave." H. Taylor.

To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminæ.

alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays. The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. Cheyne.

A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistence. Knight.

To work to windward; to beat.

A stately Polish dance tune, in 3-4 measure, beginning always on the beat with a quaver followed by a crotchet, and closing on the beat after a strong accent on the second beat; also, a dance adapted to such music; a polacca.

To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]

k. See also Roundhouse. With wind in poop, the vessel plows the sea. Dryden. The poop was beaten gold. Shak.

To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden.