Bearward

A keeper of bears. "The bear- ward leads but one brute." - L'Estrange. Beas, ( be'as ,) the anc. Hyp has is , one of the great rivers of the Punjab, rising near the Ritauka Pa , in the Him a lay as, 13,200 feet above the sea, and joining the Sutlej at Endre a, 30 m. from Umritsir; Lat. 32° 34′ N.; Lon. 77° 12′ E. Beasley's Fork, in Ohio , a post-office of Adams co. Beast, ( bēst ,) n. [O. Fr. beste; Fr. bête ; Ir. biast ; Du. beest; Lat. bestia, probably from Gael. beo , living; W. byw . Any four-footed animal useful for labor, sport, or food. Any irrational animal as opposed to man. "He is like the beasts that perish." Ps. xlix 12 20. -Figuratively, a man debased by sensual indulgence, appetites, . "Medeas charms were there, Circean feasts, With bowls that turn'd enamour'd youths to beasts"-Dryden. (Games.) A game at cards resembling loo. Beast'ings, n. pl . See BEESTINGS. Beast'ish, a. Debased; brutal; resembling a beast. Beast'like, a. Like a beast; brutal. Beast'line , n State or quality of being beastly; brutality; coarsene ; fil you r ; obscenity. "That their own mother loathed their beastline ."- Spenser. Beastly, a. Having the nature or form of a beast or beasts. "Beastly divinities, and droves of gods." - Prior. -Filthy; bestial; obscene; brutish; against the nature and attributes of man. Beat, ( bēt ,) v. a. ( Imp . BEAT; p.p. BEAT, BEATEN.) [Fr. battre, to strike, to beat, from the root bat , probably formed from the sound; A. S. beatan .] To strike with repeated blows. "Some have been beaten till they know What wood a cudgel 's of byt blow." Hudibras. -To bruise, break, or pound; to pulverize or comminute: as, to beat hemp. - To hammer out, to forge, to extend or enlarge in surface by beating. "Nestor furnished the gold, and he beat it into leaves."- Broome. -To range over ground, or scour in pursuit of game; as, to beat the stubble. "Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield." - Pope. -To tread; to make a path by marking it with feet-tracks. While I this unexampled task e ay. Pa awful gulfs, and beat my painful way." - Black more. -To thresh; to loosen from the husk by repeated blows. "She gleaned in the field, and beat out that she had gleaned." Ruth ii. 17, To beat off . To drive back; to repel. - To beat out of a thing. To give it up; to relinquish anything. "He cannot beat it out of his head, but that it was a cardinal who picked his pocket." Add is on. To beat the dust. (Manege.) To take in too little ground with his fore-legs, as a horse. To perform his curvets too precipitately or too low. Webster. - To oeat up. To attack suddenly; to make an irruption upon a place; to alarm, disturb. "Without making the least impre ion upon the enemy by beat ing up his quarters."- Lord Clarendon. To beat the wing . To move with a fluttering motion. To beat time. (Mus.) To regulate time in music by the motion of the hand or foot. To strike, brush, or dash against or on, as wind or water. "With tempests beat , and to the winds a scorn." Lord Roscommon. -To overcome; to subdue; to defeat, as in a contest; to vanquish; to conquer. "He that is beaten may be said To lie in honour's truckle-bed."- Hudibras. -To hara ; to over-labor; to depre , or perplex. "So Whackum beat his dirty brains T' advance his master's fame and gains." - Hudibras . ( Mil .) To beat an alarm. To give notice of sudden danger by beat of drum. - To beat the general. See GENERAL. To beat to arms. To bring soldiers together, when dispersed, by beat of drum. For other applications of this verb to military drums, see ASSEMBLY; CALL; CHAMADE; CHARGE; GENERAL; LONG-ROLL; MARCH; PARLEY; RETREAT; REVEILLE; ROGUE'S MARCH; TATTOO; TROOP, . To beat back. To drive by violence; to compel to retire. "Twice have I sallied, and was twice beat back."- Dryden. To be beat out. To be exhausted by labor or fatigue.To beat down. To break or batter down: to destroy, as a wall. To pre down or flatten, as standing corn by bad weather. To depre ; to crush by repeated opposition. "Our warriors propagating the French language, at the same time they are beating down their power." - Add is on . -To sink or le en in value or price. "Beats down the price, and threatens still to buy."- Dryden. To beat into. To teach by repeated instruction; to instil; as, to beat into his head. To beat the hoof . Το walk on foot; to pedestrianize. Vulgarly, to pad the hoof . v.i. To knock, or strike repeatedly. "And pulpit, drum ecclesia stick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick." - Hudibras. "But on and up, where nature's heart Beats strong amid the hills." -Monckton Milnes. -To dash, or come at with violence. "As they are more or le able to resist the impre ions of the water that beats against them." - Add is on . -To palpitate; fluctuate; be in agitation or doubt. "And hear the heart beat with the love it granted." - Byron. (Naut.) See BEATING. (Sport.) To run one way and then another, when hunting a stag. To beat about. To search in various ways; to try to find. "To find an honest man, I beat about." - Pope. To beat up for . To go about to enlist soldiers for the army; as, to beat up for recruits. - To beat upon . To reiterate; to enforce by repetition.