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Show BE 3. A brutal favage man ; a man adting i any manner unworthy of a reafonabl agitation An 2. /. [from beafly.] Bru tality'; practic of any kind contrary t the rules of humanity 9 Skakefpeare's King Lear With lewd, prophane, and beaftly phrafe To catch the world's loofe laughter, or vain gaze WIft 2. Having the nature or form of beafts Beafly divinities, and droves of gods 7o BEAT. . a. preter. beat Prior part. paff beat, or beaten. [battre, F rench. 1, To ftrike; to knock ; to lay blows upon So fight T, not as one that dearer He rav'd with all the madnefs o He roar'd, he bear his breaft, he tor the air 1 Corinthians defpair his hair Dryden 2. To punifh with ftripes or blows They *ve' chofe a conful" that will from the tak Their liberties; make them of no more voic ‘Than dogs, that are often eat for barking. Shat Miftrefs Ford, good heart, is beaten black an blue, that you cannot fee a white fpot about her Shakefpeare There is but one fault for which children fhoul be beaten ; and that is obftinacy or rebellion 3. To ftrike an inftrument of mufick Locke Bid them come forth and hear "Or at their chamber door I'll beaz the drum Till it cry, fleep to death 4. T break ; t bruife comminute by blows t Shakefpeare fpread t The people gathered manna, and ground it i mills, or beat itin a mortar, and baked it. Numéers They did beat the gold into'thin plates, and cu it into wires, to work it The fav th laborious wor Exodus of beating o hemp, by making the axletree of the main whee of their corn mills longer than ordinary, and placin of pins in them, to raife large hammers like thof uied for paper and fulling mills, with which the beat mott of cheir hemp Mortimer Neftor furnithed the gold, and he beat it int leaves, fo that he had occafion to ufe his anvil an hammer Broome 5. To firike buthes or ground, or make ~motion to roufe' game it is firange how long fome men will lie in v,ai to fpeak, and how many other matters they wil beat over to come near it Bacon When from the cave thou rifeft with the da To bear the woods, and roufe the bounding prey Together let us beat this ample field LRy 10 Try what the open, what the covert yield Pope 6. To threth ; to drive the corn out of th hatk She gleaned in the field, and dear out that fh had gleaned Vor. L Ruth, ii. 17 towe About the world toleflen the price demanded as not queftionin hiot1 terms of it Denhan 20. 7o beat up alarm While I this unexampled tafk effay Pafs awful gulfs, and bear my painful way Celeftial dove ! divine affifftance bring. Elackmore tracks 12, 'To conquer the truth of things, muf and beaten track young fellow If Hercules and Lichas play at dice Which is the better man ? The greater thro May turn by fortune from the weaker hand 21 Shakefpeare head, about the Latin grammar tend t be a critick 3. To knock at a door 4 5 H wa cannot bear it out of his head a cardinal who picked his pocket but that i Addifin The younger part of mankind might be ear of from the belief of the moft important points eve th To move with frequen the fame a& or firoke houf roun o Fudpes repetition Spab fatisty'd Dirydes heart beats, and the bleod circuiatzs not in his power, by any thouzht o ftop Lcck 'To throb ; to be in agitation, as a for To fill my beating mind Sh 6. To fluctuate ; to be in agitation The tempeft in my min Doth from my fenfes take all fecling elfe Save what bears there Sbakefpeare 7. To try different ways; to fearch: wit (léO]!f I am always beating about in my thoughts fo fo 1g that may turn to the benefit of my dea countrymen To find an honeft man, I bear about And love him, court him, praife him, in or out 16. To drive by violence : with a particle He that proceeds upon other principles in hi inquiry, does at leaft poft himfelf ina party, whic he will not quit till he be beaten o Lecke city befe A turn or two I'll walk "Such an unlook'd-for ftorm of ills falls on me It beats dozon all my ftrength Addifon Dyyden th fwelling flrllfilbr: Twice have I fally'd, and was twice deat back of the houfe Feel and b A man' which it i volition, t at the fame tinte they are beating dowon their powe: o No pulfe fhall kee His nat'ral progrefs, but furceafe to beat My temp'rate pulfe does regularly dear Locke Albeit a pardon was proclaimed, touching an fpeech tending to treafon, yet could not the boldnefs be beaten dozwn either with that feverity, o with this lenity be abated Hayward Our warriours propagating the French languaze me about, and bcat at the door, and fpake to the mafte who does not in 15. To deprefs ; to erufh by repeated oppofition : ufually with the particle dozvz . ters Bacon Your brow, which does no fear of thunder know Sees rowling tempefts vainly dear below Diyden One fees many hollow fpaces worn in the bot.toms of the rocks, as they are more or lefs able refift the impreflions of the water that Jeats againf them Add Th Her own thall blefs her Her faes fhake like a field of deaten corn And hang their heads with forrow Shakefpeare to go a Public envy feemeth to dear chiefly upon minif Arbuthnot 14. 'To lay, or prefs, as ftanding corn b hard weather walk 2. To dath as a flood or florm deas the Carthaginians a And as in prifons mean rogues bea Hemp, for the fervice of the great So Whackum bear his dirty brain T advance his mafter's fame and gains. Hudibras Why any one thould wafte his t me, and dear hi Addifon I would gladly underftand the formation of foul, and fee it beat the firft confcious pulfe. Collicr I have fought with thee, fo often haft thou dea me Shakefpeare I have difcern'd the foe fecurely lie Too proud to fear a beaten enemy Dryden The common people, of Lucca are firmly perfuaded, that one Lucquefe can bear five Florentines Addifon Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, joining his fhips t It is no point of wifdom for a man to leat hi brains, and fpend his fpirits, about things impofiible Hakewitl t 1. 'To move in a pulfatory manner, Five times, Marcius 13. To harafs ; to over-labour beat the hoof. T 7o BEAT That bear the fhapes of men, how have you ru From flaves that apes would beat Shakefpeare fea T foot You fouls of geefe thofe of the Syracufans To attack fuddenly he isy had not he knocked down conftables, an beat up a lewd woman's quarters, when he was Locke to fubdue; to vanquifh So is Alcides beate by his page Bacon They lay in that quiet pofture, without makin the leaft impreflion upoa the enemy by beating u his quarsets, which might eafily have been done Clarerdon Will fancies he fhould never have been the ma 11. To make a path by marking it wit leave the commo 'To fink or leflen th or purchafing; and ufury waylays both 10. To tread a path kno Addifon Utfury beats down the price of land 5 for the employment of money is chiefly either merchandizin Defcends terrifick from the mountain's brow. Pogpe that wil but ke would 19. 7o ‘beat down value Beat by rude blafts, and wet with wirt'ry thow'rs H 2ys rich tmeveables w She perfuaded him to truft the renegado wit the money he had brought over for t [om The common fate of all that 's high or great As when a lion in the midnight hours Dryden 18. T4 beat dowwin. 'T'o endeavour by treat of Penuel, ‘an Fudges, viii. 17 While winds and ftorms his lofty forehead ear Ben Fonfon It is charged upon the gentlemen of the army that the beaffly vice of drinking to excefs hath bee lately, from their example, reftored among L:ss th Rof Fairy Queen Theice have I bear the wing, and rid with nigh Beyond this flood a frozen continen Lies dark and wild ; beat with perpetual ftorm Of whirlwind and dire hail Milton With tempefts beat, and to the winds a fcorn That their own mother loath'd their beaftlinefs And 'gan abhor her brood's unkindly crime Wouldft thou have thy(elf fall in the confufio of men, or remain a beaft with beafts ?>-Ay- beaftly ambition Shakefpeare You beaftly knave, know you no reverence leat dow Watts 17. To move with fluttering agitation To dafh as water, or brufth as wind Polluted this fame gentle foil long time v. Brutal ; contrary to the nature and dignity of man. It is ufed commonly a a term of reproach h flew the men of the city They held this land, and with their filthinef Be'asTLY. adj. [from beaft. profane wit 8. To batter with engines of war See BEesTinGs Be'asTLINESS of natural religion, by the impudent jefts of By long beating the white of an egg with a lum of alum, you miay bring it into white curds. Boyle v, a. Aterm at cards Be'astincs BE 7. To mix things by long and frequent creature 7o BeasT Ei .P‘.‘f‘rt‘ 8. To a&t upon with violence The fun bear upon the head of Jonah 9 fainted, and withed in himfelf to die that h Fenab To fpeak frequently ; to repeat enforce by repetition : with #poz We are drawn on into a larger fpeech, b of thei fo great earneftrefs, who bear mo more upon thefe (a& alleged words H w |