Definition of creature

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Creature (n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc..

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Goose :: Goose (n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.
Providence :: Providence (n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience..
Ronyon :: Ronyon (n.) A mangy or scabby creature.
Amphioxus :: Amphioxus (n.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc..
Sportsmen :: Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Creeple :: Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
Vegetate :: Vegetate (v. i.) Fig.: To lead a live too low for an animate creature; to do nothing but eat and grow.
Prodigious :: Prodigious (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder..
Mermaid :: Mermaid (n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish..
Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms..
Prey :: Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Creature :: Creature (n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature..
Enthymeme :: Enthymeme (n.) An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the major proposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependent creatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore we should be humble..
Pinionist :: Pinionist (n.) Any winged creature.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..
Walk :: Walk (v. i.) To move along on foot; to advance by steps; to go on at a moderate pace; specifically, of two-legged creatures, to proceed at a slower or faster rate, but without running, or lifting one foot entirely before the other touches the ground..
Sea Horse :: Sea horse () A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus..
Griffon :: Griffon (n.) A representation of this creature as an heraldic charge.
Grazer :: Grazer (n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author..
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