Chapter Battle array to Becalm of B by Soule's Synonymes

Beating, n.

1. Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommeiling, caning, flagellation, pounding, thumping, basting, bastinadoing.

2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.

Beat into. (Colloq.) Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate implant.

Beatitude, n.

1. Bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, holy joy, solemn ecstasy, heavenly joy, peace that passeth understanding, ecstasy serene.

2. Encomium of virtue (by our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount), declaration of blessedness, blessing of the righteous.

Be at loggerheads. Have fallen out, be at odds, be at variance, be disputing, quarrelling, or fighting.

Beat out.

1. Flatten (by hammering), attenuate.

2. Expand, amplify, attenuate, render diffuse.

3. Exhaust, overcome (with fatigue).

Beat the air. Make vain efforts, waste one’s efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, plough the sands.

Beau, n

1. Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress, carpet knight, ladies’ man.

2. Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, cicisbeo.

Beau ideal. [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard, ideal, realized ideal, perfection, consummation, consummate flower.

Beau-monde, n. [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, world of fashion, elegant world, people of gayety.

Beauteous, a. (Poetical.) See beautiful.