Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To beat (a thing) till it becomes dry; hence, to beat severely.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To beat severely.
Examples
“Good king of cats, nothing but one of your nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight.”
“I will dry-beat you with an iron wit, and put up my iron dagger.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dry-beat’.
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recidivate, ampliate, prolate, liming, assoilzie, obtest, mazarine, minify, deprehend, dry-beat, defease, smit and 8 more...
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Gone, But Not Forgotten...Yet
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
Obsolete, rare, and obscure words culled from my Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabi...rouzie-bouzie, knuckylbonyard, ferrups, defease, malahane, accinge, venundate, pinguidity, preterlapsed, wlatsome, emuscation, atbraid and 427 more...
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List 1: Use it!
propitious, crocky, formicary, horrent, stemma, pokerish, spoliator, hardbake, stem-winding, indign, dry-beat, longinquity and 18 more...
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sea-gate, short-breathed, rose-fever, fever, wanderlust, densely, sweetheart, quietsome, limn, blithely, aglimmer, exhausted and 49 more...
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genteel, ultimatum, melanoma, ceviche, schizophrenia, burly, fumigation, dry-beat, stickybeak, abnormous, dayspring, windbound and 25 more...
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chained_bear Ugh, this is vile! No wonder it's obsolete. (Hopefully.) Oct 14, 2008
reesetee (Obsolete) To inflict "dry blows" upon (i.e., blows that do not draw blood, as those given with a stick or the fist, which merely causes a bruise); to beat soundly or severely.
Ouch. Oct 14, 2008