[beech] 
| 1. | an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore. |
| 2. | the part of the shore of an ocean, sea, large river, lake, etc., washed by the tide or waves. |
| 3. | the area adjacent to a seashore: We're vacationing at the beach. |
| 4. | Nautical. to haul or run onto a beach: We beached the ship to save it. |
| 5. | to make inoperative or unemployed. |
[beech] | 1. | Alfred Ely, 1826–96, U.S. editor, publisher, and inventor. |
| 2. | Amy Marcey Cheney [mahr-see] , 1867–1944, U.S. composer and pianist. |
| 3. | Moses Yale, 1800–68, U.S. newspaper publisher. |
| 4. | Rex El⋅ling⋅wood [el-ing-wood] , 1877–1949, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. |
| 5. | Sylvia Woodbridge, 1887–1962, U.S. bookseller and publisher in France. |
| beach (bēch) n.
[Perhaps Middle English beche, stream, from Old English bece.] |
| Beach (bēch) American editor and inventor who built a demonstration pneumatic subway under Broadway in New York City in 1870. |
| Beach, Amy Marcey Cheney 1867-1944. American pianist and composer best known for her songs and chamber music. Her Mass in E flat major was the first work by a woman to be performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. |
| Beach, Moses Yale 1800-1868. American publisher whose aggressive journalism established the New York Sun as a leading daily newspaper. He is also credited with publishing the first syndicated news story. His son Moses Sperry Beach (1822-1892) invented a cutting device that allowed printing on a continuous roll of paper and a process for printing both sides of a newspaper sheet at one time. |
| Beach, Sylvia Woodbridge 1887-1962. American bookseller. From 1919 to 1941 her shop in Paris, Shakespeare and Company, was a gathering place for authors such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. She published the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922. |
| beach (bēch) Pronunciation Key
The area of accumulated sand, stone, or gravel deposited along a shore by the action of waves and tides. Beaches usually slope gently toward the body of water they border and have a concave shape. They extend landward from the low water line to the point where there is a distinct change in material (as in a line of vegetation) or in land features (as in a cliff). |