Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having beams or horns, having all its antlers put forth, as the head of a stag.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of beam.
  • adjective Furnished with beams or timbers.
  • adjective Furnished with beams, as the head of a stag.

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Examples

  • David Mamet beamed from a crowded aisle at Tuesday night 's Broadway opening of his play "A Life in the Theatre," gripping a neatly wrapped box that contained a rattle — a gift he says he planned to give his brother for dating a younger woman.

    Mamet on Growing Up Ellen Gamerman 2010

  • More than anything else this made him feel truly a radio man, not just the voice of radio itself, the very fact of amplification, the human voice lifted miles, beamed from the high ground, a nexus of the opportune.

    Style in Fiction 2009

  • The paradox screams silent from the word beamed across the screen ad-infinitum.

    Red Fox Rampant 2010

  • It wants to be copied from friend to friend, beamed from a Palm device, pasted into a mailing list.

    Boing Boing: November 26, 2006 - December 2, 2006 Archives 2006

  • An unwonted expression of happiness beamed from the fire-lit faces of these prison-clad individuals, drawn together from many parts of the country and from widely-differing walks of life.

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • A tall black man with a sly expression beamed out at us.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • A tall black man with a sly expression beamed out at us.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • A tall black man with a sly expression beamed out at us.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • But it was to be noted that while she surveyed John Berwick with a careful and noncommittal eye, she regarded Jim with a simple kindness that fairly beamed, which is not insinuating that the chief engineer of the _Sea

    Frontier Boys in Frisco Wyn Roosevelt

  • But only one expression beamed on the five sunburnt and shining faces -- a look of unaffected boyish gratification and unrestricted welcome.

    Devil's Ford Bret Harte 1869

  • Asil, it turned out, had been “beamed”—Roblox slang for getting hacked and your items stolen.

    How Roblox ‘Beamers’ Get Rich Stealing from Children Joseph Cox 2022

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