Definition of beast

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Beast (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc..

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Beastly :: Beastly (a.) Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast..
Twin :: Twin (n.) One of two produced at a birth, especially by an animal that ordinarily brings forth but one at a birth; -- used chiefly in the plural, and applied to the young of beasts as well as to human young..
Berna Fly :: Berna fly () A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvae do great injury..
Carcass :: Carcass (n.) A dead body, whether of man or beast; a corpse; now commonly the dead body of a beast..
Dam :: Dam (n.) A female parent; -- used of beasts, especially of quadrupeds; sometimes applied in contempt to a human mother..
Circean :: Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught..
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam..
Den :: Den (n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers..
Stabulation :: Stabulation (n.) The act of stabling or housing beasts.
Brute :: Brute (a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation..
Shriek :: Shriek (v. i.) To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish..
Jument :: "Jument (n.) A beast; especially, a beast of burden..
Snouty :: Snouty (a.) Resembling a beast's snout.
Lesses :: Lesses (v. t.) The leavings or dung of beasts.
Savage :: Savage (a.) Wild; untamed; uncultivated; as, savage beasts..
Heriot :: Heriot (n.) Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant..
Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Hence: Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; dreadful; as, a beast of portentous size..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Devour :: Devour (v. t.) To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon.
Enfiled :: Enfiled (p. a.) Having some object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be enfiled of the thing which it pierces..
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