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Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak.

Gilded. [Obs.]

Warworn.

Beaten or harassed by the weather; worn by exposure to the weather, especially to severe weather. Shak.

Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

A semi-liquid mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

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

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

rds or looks; to bully; as, to browbeat witnesses. My grandfather was not a man to be browbeaten. W. Irving.

all, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment to their dance and guitars.

A mass of chalk. As chalkstones . . . beaten in sunder. Isa. xxvii. 9.

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.

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

A sweetened hot drink of spirit and beaten eggs.

ess. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

ow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. Dryden. Every dint a sword had beaten in it [the shield]. Tennyson.

in order; a diesis. -- Double drum (Mus.), a large drum that is beaten at both ends. -- Double eagle, a gold coin of the United States having the value of 20 dollars. -- Double entry. See under Bookkeeping. -- Double floor (Arch.), a floor in which binding joists support flooring joists above and ceiling joists bel…

f a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The d…