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The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.

a request, introducing a petition, etc.; as, Pray, allow me to go. I pray, sir. why am I beaten Shak.

Overthrown; beaten; conquered. [Obs.] The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras.

To speak; to converse. [Obs.] There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice, Proposing with the prince and Claudio. Shak.

ose office is to register pontifical acts and to make and preserve the official record of beatifications.

To throb, as a pulse; to beat, as the heart. The heart of a viper or frog will continue to pulsate long after it is taken from the body. E. Darwin.

Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

A beating or throbbing, especially of the heart or of an artery, or in an inflamed part; a beat of the pulse.

Beating; throbbing.

A beater; a striker.

The beating or throbbing of the heart or blood vessels, especially of the arteries.

To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize. [R.]

To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.

To injure, as by beating; to pommel. [Low]

or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much used in polishing gla…

To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush. The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller.

; increased to five times the amount; fivefold. Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in a measure. It is seldom used.

n instrument for driving anything force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.

A dog that beats the ground in search of game.

The beat of the drum to call soldiers to arms.