beck

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

beck
    n 1: a beckoning gesture

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beck \Beck\, n.
   See {Beak}. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beck \Beck\, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook,
   OHG. pah, G. bach.]
   A small brook.
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         The brooks, the becks, the rills.        --Drayton.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beck \Beck\, n.
   A vat. See {Back}.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]
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         When gold and silver becks me to come on. --Shak.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Beck \Beck\, n.
   A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a
   call or command.
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         They have troops of soldiers at their beck. --Shak.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

77 Moby Thesaurus words for "beck":
      adolescent stream, arroyo, bearing, beck and call, beckon, bidding,
      body language, bourn, braided stream, branch, brook, brooklet,
      burn, call, calling, calling forth, carriage, channel, charade,
      chironomy, convocation, creek, crick, dactylology,
      deaf-and-dumb alphabet, dumb show, evocation, flowing stream,
      fluviation, fresh, freshet, gesticulation, gesture,
      gesture language, gill, hand signal, indent, invocation, kill,
      kinesics, lazy stream, meandering stream, midchannel, midstream,
      millstream, motion, movement, moving road, navigable river, nod,
      pantomime, poise, pose, posture, preconization, race,
      racing stream, requisition, river, rivulet, run, rundle, runlet,
      runnel, shrug, sign language, sike, spill stream, stance, stream,
      stream action, streamlet, subterranean river, summons, wadi,
      watercourse, waterway