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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \Beck\, n.
See {Beak}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \Beck\, n.
A vat. See {Back}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Beck \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
beck
n : a beckoning gesture
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