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Beating
BE'ATING, ppr. Laying on blows; striking; dashing against; conquering; pounding; sailing against the direction of the wind; etc.
BE'ATING,n. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows.
The beating of flax and hemp is an operation which renders them more soft and pliable. For this purpose, they are made into rolls and laid in a trough, where they are beat, till no roughness or hardness can be felt.
In book binding, beating is performed by laying the book in quires or sheets folded, on a block, and beating it with a heavy broad-faced hammer. On this operation the elegance of the binding and the easy opening of the book chiefly depend.
Beating the wind, was a practice in the ancient trial by combat. If one of the combatants did not appear on the field, the other was to beat the wind, by making flourishes with his weapons; by which he was entitled to the advantages of a conqueror.
Beatings, in music, the regular pulsative swellings of sound, produced in an organ by pipes of the same key, when not in unison, and their vibrations not simultaneous or coincident.
beating appears in definitions for these words:
Abattis Anvil Apitpat Applause Assembly Bandying Bastinade Basting Batfowling Batlet Batteler Batter Battered Battering Battery Battle Beat Beating Binary Blacksmith Brain Bruise Bruising Caning Canvass Castigation Club Contund Contusion Crush Cudgel Cudgel-proof Discuss Dispute Draw Dressing Drubbing Drum-stick Ductile Excoriate Felling Flagellation Flail Flapping Flog Foliation Forge Fustigation Hammer Hammering Knock Knocking Malleability Malleable Malleate Malleation Mallet Mash Mashing Metal Mold Palpitation Payment Platina Pound Pounding Pulsatile Pulsation Pulsative Pulsatory Pulse Pulverize Rammer Rebuff Ribroasting Roll Ruffing Salient Saltation Salute Shipwreck Signal Slay Smite Sound Spred Stamp Subaction Swinging Swingle Swingling Tact Thick Thrashed Thrashing Throb Throbbing Thumping Tick Tilted Unmalleable Vapulation Verberation
Abattis Anvil Apitpat Applause Assembly Bandying Bastinade Basting Batfowling Batlet Batteler Batter Battered Battering Battery Battle Beat Beating Binary Blacksmith Brain Bruise Bruising Caning Canvass Castigation Club Contund Contusion Crush Cudgel Cudgel-proof Discuss Dispute Draw Dressing Drubbing Drum-stick Ductile Excoriate Felling Flagellation Flail Flapping Flog Foliation Forge Fustigation Hammer Hammering Knock Knocking Malleability Malleable Malleate Malleation Mallet Mash Mashing Metal Mold Palpitation Payment Platina Pound Pounding Pulsatile Pulsation Pulsative Pulsatory Pulse Pulverize Rammer Rebuff Ribroasting Roll Ruffing Salient Saltation Salute Shipwreck Signal Slay Smite Sound Spred Stamp Subaction Swinging Swingle Swingling Tact Thick Thrashed Thrashing Throb Throbbing Thumping Tick Tilted Unmalleable Vapulation Verberation
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