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Beck Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Beck? [n] a beckoning gesture Synonyms \| Synonyms for Beck: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Beck: adolescent stream \| arroyo \| bearing \| beck and call \| beckon \| bidding \| body language \| bourn \| braided stream \| branch \| brook \| brooklet \| burn \| call \| calling \| calling forth \| carriage \| channel \| charade \| chironomy \| convocation \| creek \| crick \| dactylology \| deaf-and-dumb alphabet \| dumb show \| evocation \| flowing stream \| fluviation \| fresh \| freshet \| gesticulation \| gesture \| gesture language \| gill \| hand signal \| indent \| invocation \| kill \| kinesics \| lazy stream \| meandering stream \| midchannel \| midstream \| millstream \| motion \| movement \| moving road \| navigable river \| nod \| pantomime \| poise \| pose \| posture \| preconization \| race \| racing stream \| requisition \| river \| rivulet \| run \| rundle \| runlet \| runnel \| shrug \| sign language \| sike \| spill stream \| stance \| stream \| stream action \| streamlet \| subterranean river \| summons \| wadi \| watercourse \| waterway See Also \| gesture \| motion Beck In Webster's Dictionary \Beck\, n. See {Beak}. [Obs.] --Spenser. \Beck\, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.] A small brook. The brooks, the becks, the rills. --Drayton. \Beck\, n. A vat. See {Back}. \Beck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Becked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Becking}.] [Contr. of beckon.] To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic] --Drayton. \Beck\, v. t. To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand; to intimate a command to. [Archaic] When gold and silver becks me to come on. --Shak. \Beck\, n. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. They have troops of soldiers at their beck. --Shak.

Beck Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Beck?

[n] a beckoning gesture

Synonyms | Synonyms for Beck:

See Also | gesture | motion

Beck In Webster's Dictionary

\Beck\, n.
See {Beak}. [Obs.] --Spenser.


\Beck\, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook,
OHG. pah, G. bach.]
A small brook.

      The brooks, the becks, the rills.        --Drayton.


\Beck\, n.
A vat. See {Back}.


\Beck\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Becked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Becking}.] [Contr. of beckon.]
To nod, or make a sign with the head or hand. [Archaic]
--Drayton.


\Beck\, v. t.
To notify or call by a nod, or a motion of the head or hand;
to intimate a command to. [Archaic]

      When gold and silver becks me to come on. --Shak.


\Beck\, n.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a
call or command.

      They have troops of soldiers at their beck. --Shak.

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