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• A small mat used next to a bathtub to absorb water and thus prevent slipping.

• To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.

• To watch or attend anything or anyone unnecessarily closely; to have to help or coax too much.

• a small boat that ferries supplies and commodities for sale to a larger ship at anchor

• small lynx of North America

• arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair

• mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker

• An element of a lineage, especially of a lineage given in the Bible

• To father; to sire; to produce (a child).

• To cause; to produce.

• To bring forth.

• To happen to; befall.

• swelling of the rumen or intestinal tract of domestic animals caused by excessive gas

• become bloated or swollen or puff up

• make bloated or swollen

• the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)

• talk whiningly

• cry plaintively

• a regular route for a sentry or policeman

• the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart

• the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music

• a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations

• a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior

• the sound of stroke or blow

• (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

• a regular rate of repetition

• a stroke or blow

• the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing

• very tired

• come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

• give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

• hit repeatedly

• move rhythmically

• shape by beating

• make a rhythmic sound

• glare or strike with great intensity

• move with a thrashing motion

• sail with much tacking or with difficulty

• stir vigorously

• strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music

• be superior

• avoid paying

• make a sound like a clock or a timer

• move with a flapping motion

• indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks

• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

• make by pounding or trampling

• produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly

• strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting

• beat through cleverness and wit

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• wear out completely