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A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.

To strike; to beat. [Scot.]

To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate. Pope. My proffered love has cheapened me. Dryden.

A portable timekeeper, with a heavy compensation balance, and usually beating half seconds; -- intended to keep time with great accuracy for use an astronomical observations, in determining longitude, etc.

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

Oatmeal cake or bread clapped or beaten till it is thin. [Obs.] Halliwell.

h barrels] for bits of coal." W. D. Howells. To claw off (Naut.), to turn to windward and beat, to prevent falling on a lee shore.

To beat with a club.

An oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie.

One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer. Beattie. Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.

licitude; anxiety. O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to beattle. {\*\bkmkstart last}\error \*\bkmkend last}Addison.

convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

To beat, pound, or together. Roots, barks, and seeds contused together. Bacon.

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

itrary custom; usage; conventionality. There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down. Tennyson.

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

The woods, underbrush, etc., which shelter and conceal game; covert; as, to beat a cover; to ride to cover.

Covering; shelter; defence; hiding. Protected by walls or other like coverture. Woodward. Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

The top of the head, or the head itself. We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs. Beau & Fl.