An attachment to a loom for keeping the cloth stretched, while the reed beats the threads into place after each throw of the shuttle. One form is automatic, releasing the cloth and then stretching it after each stroke of the lay, An ornament worn at the side of the head or covering the side of the head, mentioned in the fifteenth century as apparently sometimes of needlework, sometimes set with jewels, Something regarded as holding religious presence, verb_ transitive To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to.

Plural form of beat, verb_ Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat

The rhythmical throbbing of arteries produced by the regular contractions of the heart, especially as palpated at the wrist or in the neck, Any of a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by a brief sudden change in a quantity, A frequent pulse, intransitive verb_ To beat, as the arteries; to move in pulses or beats; to pulsate; to throb, Physics To undergo a series of intermittent occurrences characterized by brief, sudden changes in a quantity, transitive verb_ rare To drive by a pulsation; to cause to pulsate, verb_ to beat, to throb, to flash, to flow, particularly of blood, to emit in discrete quantities

Measured verse or rhythmic language; rhythmic language as determined by or divided into fixed measures, That which measures, or is used for measuring; specifically, an instrument that records or indicates automatically the quantity, force, or pressure of a fluid passing through it or actuating it_ used in composition, as in gas-meter, water-meter (see these words), or alone when the fluid to be measured, as gas or water, is understood, music) an increment of music; the overall rhythm; particularly, the number of beats in a measure, verb_ To measure with a metering device, To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter, stamp with a meter indicating the postage