Beamful

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Beamy; radiant; luminous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Beamy; radiant; luminous.
2. A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)

Example Sentences

Let each succeeding page Still boast those charms, and luminate the age; So shall thy beamful fires with light divine, Rise to the sphere, and there triumphant shine.

And Monsieur Le Donkey's pleased beam is twice as beamful as it was over the stage business with the sauce.

I can recall the tall, slender man-boy, with the large beamful eyes, soft brown beard and moustache, long swinging stride, careless dress, lounging habits, and incessant oratory.

Phialai of similar size would be divided into convenient " beamfuls " or weighing-lots.

Susan committed those confused, tragic eyes of hers to me, fixing on rhy stare, perhaps for some optical beamful of compassion.

Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.

He set off to get some words take some mysteries: he cut a field of reindeer open a big beamful of squirrels; from there he got many words— all of them useless.

A rider on a horse approaches: a torch attached to saddle or bridle illuminates a beamful of plummeting needles of rain, as if to reveal them rather than clarify the way forward for the rider.

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• more beamful
• most beamful
• beamfuls

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