Beat

A stroke; a striking; a blow; as, "He, with a carele beat." Dryden. - A pulsation; a succe ion of strokes. "And oh! that quickening of the heart, that beat!" - Byron. Beat'ing, n Act of striking, giving, or laying on re- peated blows; chastisement by blows; correction. "Playwright, convict of public wrongs to men, Takes private beatings , and begins again." -A round or course frequently perambulated and trod- -Pulsation or throbbing with regularity. den; as, a policeman's beat . Beat of Drum . See DRUM.