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One of the principal horizontal timbers of a building or ship. The beams of a vessel are strong pieces of timber stretching across from side to side to support the decks. Totten.

A tree (Pyrus aria) related to the apple.

A small European flycatcher (Muscicapa gricola), so called because it often nests on a beam in a building.

Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag. Tost his beamed frontlet to the sky. Sir W. Scott.

Beamy; radiant.

In a beaming manner.

The state of being beamy.

Emitting beams; radiant.

In a beaming manner; radiantly.

Not having a beam.

A small beam of light.

Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold." Tickell.

On the beam, that is, on a line which forms a right angle with the ship's keel; opposite to the center of the ship's side.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.

To make brilliant with beams. [R.] G. Fletcher.

A glance of the eye. Shak.

The breast beam of a loom.

A member of one description of roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.