Definition of creature

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

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Noun :: Noun (n.) A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive..
Creatureship :: Creatureship (n.) The condition of being a creature.
Prey :: Prey (n.) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
Wound :: Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like..
Existence :: Existence (n.) That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences..
Kip :: Kip (n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..
Leash :: Leash (n.) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general..
Ronyon :: Ronyon (n.) A mangy or scabby creature.
Synecdochical :: Synecdoche (n.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc..
Subordinate :: Subordinate (v. t.) To place in a lower order or class; to make or consider as of less value or importance; as, to subordinate one creature to another..
Pinionist :: Pinionist (n.) Any winged creature.
Tangle :: Tangle (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea..
Creeple :: Creeple (n.) A creeping creature; a reptile.
Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author..
Sportsmen :: Sportling (n.) A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.
Animal :: Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites..
Delicate :: Delicate (a.) Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful; as, a delicate creature..
Goose :: Goose (n.) A silly creature; a simpleton.
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..
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