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adjective
Beamy  adj.  
1.
Emitting beams of light; radiant; shining. "Beamy gold."
2.
Resembling a beam in size and weight; massy. "His double-biting ax, and beamy spear."
3.
Having horns, or antlers. "Beamy stags in toils engage."





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"Beamy" Quotes from Famous Books



... two-masted Dutch fishing-vessel usually employed in the North Sea off the Dogger Bank. She had two masts, and was very similar to a ketch in rig, but somewhat beamy and bluff-bowed. ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton
... Daemon called its winged ministers. Speechless with bliss the Spirit mounts the car, That rolled beside the crystal battlement, Bending her beamy eyes in thankfulness. The burning wheels inflame 600 The steep descent of Heaven's untrodden way. Fast and far the chariot flew: The mighty globes that rolled Around the gate of the Eternal Fane Lessened by slow degrees, and soon appeared 605 Such ...
— The Daemon of the World • Percy Bysshe Shelley
... musing stands the sprite 'Tis the middle wane of night; His task is hard, his way is far, But he must do his errand right Ere dawning mounts her beamy car, And rolls her chariot wheels of light; And vain are the spells of fairy-land, He must ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various
... knows I little thought I should ever be bound upon the voyage which now lies before me, I wrote in that form of my writings which obtains by far the most extensive circulation, these words of the American nation:- "I know full well, whatever little motes my beamy eyes may have descried in theirs, that they are a kind, large-hearted, generous, and great people." In that faith I am going to see them again; in that faith I shall, please God, return from them in the spring; in that same faith to live and to die. I told you in the beginning that ...
— Speeches: Literary and Social • Charles Dickens


Words linked to "Beamy" :   beam, refulgent, effulgent, broad


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