'Beck' definitions:
Definition of 'beck'
(from WordNet)
noun
A beckoning gesture
Definition of 'Beck'
From: GCIDE
- Beck \Beck\, n. [OE. bek, AS. becc; akin to Icel. bekkr brook, OHG. pah, G. bach.] A small brook. [1913 Webster]
- The brooks, the becks, the rills. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beck'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Beck'
From: GCIDE
- 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] [1913 Webster]
- When gold and silver becks me to come on. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Beck'
From: GCIDE
- Beck \Beck\, n. A significant nod, or motion of the head or hand, esp. as a call or command. [1913 Webster]
- They have troops of soldiers at their beck. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'beck'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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