2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.
Beat into, [Colloquial.] Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate, implant.
Beatitude, n. Happiness, bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, transport, rapture, heavenly joy.
Be at loggerheads, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads, go to loggerheads.
Beat out, 1. Flatten (by hammering).
2. Exhaust, overcome (with fatigue).
Beat the air, Make vain efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, milk the ram.
Beau, n. 1. Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress.
2. Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, cicisbeo.
Beau ideal, [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard.
Beau-monde, n. [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, genteel people.
Beauteous, a. [Poetical.] Beautiful.
Beauties, n. pl. 1. Anthology, selections, elegant extracts.
2. Beautiful persons (especially beautiful women).
Beautiful, a. Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, pretty, beauteous.
Beautify, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, bedizen, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, trick out, set off, make beautiful.
Beauty, n. 1. Elegance, grace, symmetry.
2. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.
3. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.
4. Beautiful person (especially a beautiful woman).
Beaux-esprits, n. pl. [Fr.] Men of wit, men of genius.
Beaver, n. 1. Fur of the beaver.
2. Hat.
3. Face-guard (of a helmet).
Be beat out, Be exhausted, be fagged, be greatly fatigued.
Be brought to bed, Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed.
Becafico, n. Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater pettychaps, garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
Be called, Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.
Becalm, v. a. 1. Quiet, soothe, calm, tranquillize, pacify, make calm, make tranquil.
2. Detain by a calm (as a ship).
Be cast away, 1. Be thrown aside.
2. Be shipwrecked.
Because, conj. 1. For, since, as, for the cause that, for the reason that, on this account that, inasmuch as.
2. On account, by reason.
Bèche-de-mer, n. [Fr.] Trepang, sea-cucumber, sea-slug.
Beck, n. Nod, bow.
Beckon, v. n. Make a sign, give a signal.
Beckon, v. a. Call by a sign or signal.
Becloud, v. a. Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.