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beamed, ppl. a.|biːmd|
[f. beam n.1 or v.]
1. Having or furnished with a beam or beams.
a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 187 A Chariot..With Cedar beam'd, and wheel'd with spicy Wreaths. 1865in Derby Merc. 15 Feb., And the waves danced under their beamed bows. 1881E. Poynter Among Hills I. 162 The low-beamed paper-trellised ceiling.
b. fig.; cf. beam n.1 3 c.
1627Feltham Resolves i. viii. Wks. (1677) 12 He that looks upon another with a beamed eye.
2. Of a stag: Having a horn of the fourth year.
1575Turberv. Venerie 51 Those be verie strong, bearing fayre and high heades well furnished and beamed. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. ii. (1641) 121 [The deer] beares a head, Large, and well beam'd. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. ii, The antlered monarch of the waste..Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky.
3. Arranged on the beam of the loom.
1851L. Gordon in Art Jrnl. Illust. Catal. vii**/1 These bobbins of yarn are then taken to the warping-machine..to make them into a beamed warp.
4. Having rays or beams of light; radiant.
1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxiv. 229 A bemed sterre, the whiche clerkes calle stella cometa. 1647Crashaw Poems 130 Broad-beam'd day's meridian. 1862Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 26 When hot-beam'd zuns do strike right down. |