1) American music magazine 2) Bearish time 3) Beat 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Jazz magazine 7) Musical rhythm 8) Party-pooping 9) Pessimistic 10) Rhythm 11) Somewhat pessimistic 12) The first beat of a measure 13) Word of purely Anglo origin 14) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 1) Gloomy 2) Pessimistic 3) Sad 4) Unenthusiastic 
[n] - the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor`s arm moves downward)
noun the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor`s arm moves downward)
the downward stroke of a conductor's arm or baton indicating the first or accented beat of a measure. · the first beat of a measure.