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Word Meanings - BEATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. (more info) 1. The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. 2. Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart.

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  • HEARTWOOD
    The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum.
  • HEART
    A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle
  • BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
    Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • HEARTGRIEF
    Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
  • HEARTEN
    1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land.
  • BEATIFICATION
    The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
  • HEARTDEEP
    Rooted in the heart. Herbert.
  • GIVING
    1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
  • BEATIFICATE
    To beatify. Fuller.
  • HEARTENER
    One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne.
  • HEARTSWELLING
    Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
  • HEART-ROBBING
    1. Depriving of thought; ecstatic. "Heart-robbing gladness." Spenser. 2. Stealing the heart or affections; winning.
  • STRIKE
    Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
  • HEART'S-EASE
    A species of violet ; -- called also pansy. (more info) 1. Ease of heart; peace or tranquillity of mind or feeling. Shak.
  • BEATER
    1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
  • HEARTYHALE
    Good for the heart.
  • HEARTSOME
    Merry; cheerful; lively.
  • HEARTLESS
    1. Without a heart. You have left me heartess; mine is in your bosom. J. Webster. 2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent. Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground. Dryden. Heartless and melancholy. W. Irwing. 3. Destitute of
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • WHITE-HEART
    A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
  • SWEETHEART
    A lover of mistress.
  • TERGIVERSATOR
    One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
  • DRUMBEAT
    The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
  • WINTER-BEATEN
    Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • TRABEATED
    Furnished with an entablature.
  • PIGEON-HEARTED
    Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.
  • PROPULSATION
    The act of driving away or repelling; a keeping at a distance. Bp. Hall.
  • THANKSGIVING
    1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
  • DEADBEAT
    Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
  • ALMSGIVING
    The giving of alms.
  • MISGIVING
    Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
  • DISHEARTENMENT
    Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

 

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