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To beat; to strike. [Obs.] "The sound . . . rebounds again and verberates the skies." Mir. for Mag.

The act of verberating; a beating or striking. Arbuthnot.

he sun is below the horizon, a star or planet emerging from his rays becomes visible. -- Beatific vision (Theol.), the immediate sight of God in heaven. -- Direct vision (Opt.), vision when the image of the object falls directly on the yellow spot (see under Yellow); also, vision by means of rays which are not deviat…

To attack or beat with a waddy.

nd bowers. Milton. He had walk for a hundred sheep. Latimer. Amid the sound of steps that beat The murmuring walks like rain. Bryant.

To beat soundly; to flog; to whip. [Prov. Eng., Scot., & Colloq. U. S.]

To beat; to whap. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Sir T. Malory.

The pied wagtail; -- so called in allusion to its beating the water with its tail while tripping along the leaves of water plants. [Prov. Eng.]

agistrate. To think every thing disputable is a proof of a weak mind and captious temper. Beattie. Origen was never weak enough to imagine that there were two Gods. Waterland.

To press or beat into intimate and permanent union, as two pieces of iron when heated almost to fusion.

To soak; also, to beat severely. [Prov. Eng.]

To strike; to beat; to give a heavy or resounding blow to; to thrash; to make with whacks. [Colloq.] Rodsmen were whackingtheir way through willow brakes. G. W. Cable.

One who whales, or beats; a big, strong fellow; hence, anything of great or unusual size. [Colloq. U. S.]

To beat. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]

To beat or strike.

To strike with a lash, a cord, a rod, or anything slender and lithe; to lash; to beat; as, to whip a horse, or a carpet.

y with a buzzing or whizzing sound; to whiz. The partridge bursts away on whirring wings. Beattie.

A small culinary instrument made of wire, or the like, for whisking or beating eggs, cream, etc. Boyle.

To beat with wings, or as with wings.[Poetic] Now on the polar winds; then with quick fan Winnows the buxom air. Milton.

ether hilly or not. And from his further bank Ætolia's wolds espied. Byron. The wind that beats the mountain, blows More softly round the open wold. Tennyson.