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The act of battering or beating.

The act of beating the woods, bushes, etc., for game.

The measuring of time by beating.

A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An inhabitant of a madhouse; a madman. "Raving bedlamites." Beattie.

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

To beat soundly; to cudgel. Ajax belabors there a harmless ox. Dryden.

To beat with a strap. See Lace. [Obs.] Wright.

To beat or bang. [Prov. & Low, Eng.] Todd.

To maul or beat severely; to bruise. "In order to bemaul Yorick." Sterne.

Blessing; beatitude; benediction. Shak. More precious than the benison of friends. Talfourd.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

imp. & p. p. of Beat. [Obs.]

To beat or thump soundly. Shak.

A company; an assembly or collection of persons, especially of ladies. What a bevy of beaten slaves have we here ! Beau. & Fl.

A small stick of wood, as for firewood. They shall beat out my brains with billets. Shak.

Beatified.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.

ing with a hollow sound; making a hollow sound or note; roaring; resounding. O'er the sea-beat ships the booming waters roar. Falcone.

To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.