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To beat; to chastise; also, to humble; to harass; to worry. [Obs.] insworth.

To beat; to chastise; to humble; to worry. [Obs.] [Written also feaze, feize, pheese.] Beau. & Fl. To feeze up, to work into a passion. [Obs.]

The state of being feracious or fruitful. [Obs.] Beattie.

n with combustibles, used for setting fire to an enemy's ships. -- Fire roll, a peculiar beat of the drum to summon men to their quarters in case of fire. -- Fire setting (Mining), the process of softening or cracking the working face of a lode, to facilitate excavation, by exposing it to the action of fire; -- now g…

To beat; to strike; to chastise. [Obs.] I'll fer him, and firk him, and ferret him. Shak.

A beating or flogging; a whipping; a scourging. Garth.

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. Milton.

To beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope.

along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats. Envy is as the sunbeams that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat. Bacon.

A lock of wool or hair. I prythee, Tom, beat Cut's saddle, put a few flocks in the point [pommel]. Shak.

To beat or strike with a rod or whip; to whip; to lash; to chastise with repeated blows.

A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. Knight.

To beat; to maul. [Obs.]

To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon.

The act of beating a metal into a thin plate, leaf, foil, or lamina.

The state of being beaten into foil. Johnson.

The act of beating or working iron or steel; the manufacture of metalic bodies. [Obs.] In the greater bodies the forge was easy. Bacon. American forge, a forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working continuously. Raymond. -- Catala…

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie.

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.