ppl. a. [f. BEAM sb.1 or v.]
1. Having or furnished with a beam or beams.
a. 1711. Ken, Hymnotheo, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 187. A Chariot … With Cedar beam’d, and wheel’d with spicy Wreaths.
1865. A. J. Munby, in Derby Mercury, 15 Feb., 6/1.
| I saw them atop of the old church stairs, | |
| When the wind blew in from the sea; | |
| And the waves danced under their beamed bows, | |
| And the foam flew under their lee. |
1881. E. F. Poynter, Among the Hills, I. 162. The low-beamed paper-trellised ceiling.
b. fig.; cf. BEAM sb.1 3 c.
1627. Feltham, Resolves, I. viii. Wks. (1677), 12. He that looks upon another with a beamed eye.
2. Of a stag: Having a horn of the fourth year.
1575. Turberv., Venerie, 51. Those be verie strong, bearing fayre and high heades well furnished and beamed.
1637. B. Jonson, Sad Sheph., I. ii. (1641), 121. [The deer] beares a head, Large, and well beam’d.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. ii. The antlered monarch of the waste … Tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky.
3. Arranged on the beam of the loom.
1851. L. Gordon, in Art Jrnl. Illust. Catal., vii**/1. These bobbins of yarn are then taken to the warping machine … to make them into a beamed warp.
4. Having rays or beams of light; radiant.
1480. Caxton, Chron. Eng., ccxxiv. 229. A bemed sterre, the whiche clerkes calle stella cometa.
1647. Crashaw, Poems, 130. Broad-beam’d day’s meridian.
1862. Barnes, Rhymes Dorset Dial., I. 26. When hot-beam’d zuns do strike right down.
