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e built by the aborigines of Mexico, Yucatan, etc. And Aztec priests upon their teocallis Beat the wild war-drums made of serpent's skin. Longfellow.

To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

To beat; to break, as flax or hemp. [Obs.] Mortimer.

The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

ias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.

To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.

To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound. These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped. Shak.

To make a small or repeating noise by beating or otherwise, as a watch does; to beat.

To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. With oar strokes timing to their song. Whittier.

fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as time unit for the beat, and the numerator, the number of these to the measure.

An obsolete intensive prefix used in the formation of compound verbs; as in to-beat, to-break, to-hew, to-rend, to-tear. See these words in the Vocabulary. See the Note on All to, or All-to, under All, adv.

l for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.

A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

opper; -- called also German, or Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

To beat with a stick. [Prov. Eng.]

A road; a beaten path. Behold Torquatus the same track pursue. Dryden.

The number of beats of a watch in any certain time.