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Webster 1913 Edition

Beck

Beck

,
Noun.
See
Beak
.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Beck

,
Noun.
[OE.
bek
, AS.
becc
; akin to Icel.
bekkr
brook, OHG.
pah
, G.
bach
.]
A small brook.
The brooks, the
becks
, the rills.
Drayton.

Beck

,
Noun.
A vat. See
Back
.

Beck

,
Verb.
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.

Beck

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare

Beck

,
Noun.
A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command.
They have troops of soldiers at their
beck
.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Beck

BECK

,
Noun.
A small brook. Gray. Heb. a brook or rivulet; in the sense of flowing, as tears, weeping. Gen.32.22. It is obsolete in English, but is found in the names of towns situated near streams, as in Walbeck; but is more frequent in names on the continent,as in Griesbach.&c.

BECK

,
Noun.
A nod of the head; a significant nod, intended to be understood by some person, especially as a sign of command.

BECK

,
Verb.
I.
To nod or make a sign with the head.

BECK

,
Verb.
T.
To call by a nod; to intimate a command to; to notify by a motion of the head.

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