beamful
beamful adjective: beamy; radiant; luminous.
Adjective
beamful (comparative more beamful, superlative most beamful)
- Beamy; radiant; luminous.
- 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.1929, Walter Jerrold, Clare Armstrong Bridgman Jerrold, Five Queer Women, page 236
- And Monsieur Le Donkey's pleased beam is twice as beamful as it was over the stage business with the sauce.1941, George Jean Nathan, The bachelor life, page 120
Noun
beamful (plural beamfuls)
- A quantity in a beam (of wood, of light, etc)
- Phialai of similar size would be divided into convenient " beamfuls " or weighing-lots.1944, Hesperia, page 186
- Susan committed those confused, tragic eyes of hers to me, fixing on rhy stare, perhaps for some optical beamful of compassion.1981, National Lampoon - Volume 2, Issues 30-41, page 184
Examples of beamful in a sentence
- 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.2001, Meg Tasker, Struggle and storm: the life and death of Francis Adams, page 57:
- Behind the olde worlde postcard village, the timbers are rotting away by the beamful and the corpses are piling up.2006, Lisa Selvidge, The Trials of Tricia Blake, page 9:
- 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.2008, Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala:
- 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.2011, Tim Pears, Landed, page 205:
Forms of beamful
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more beamful |
| superlative | most beamful |
| Noun | |
| plural | beamfuls |
Origin of beamful
From beam + -ful.
Questions about beamful
- What does beamful mean?
- Beamful means beamy; radiant; luminous.
- How do you use beamful in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is beamful?
- Beamful can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near beamful in the dictionary
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