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The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms. Spenser.

Same as Surbate. [Obs.]

To beat thoroughly or severely. [Obs.] Layamon.

Furnished with an entablature.

Same as Entablature.

To deliver from the form or nature of a beast.

Warworn.

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

To beat down; to overthrow. [Obs.] The King of Scots . . . sore abated the walls. Edw. Hall.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

The state of being rejected or cast out. [R.] An adjection from the beatific regions where God, and his angels and saints, dwell forever. Jer. Taylor.

was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

posite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

ine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the…

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar; - - opposed to thesis. Moore.

with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

t, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a batter…