beast

[Beast]

A beast is an animal and usually not a gentle or attractive one. You can also call a person a beast when they're behaving in a crude, savage, or horrible way.

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

Noun
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Noun
a cruelly rapacious person

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Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.

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As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.

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Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.

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A game at cards similar to loo.

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A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.

Beast

Beast , n. [OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F. b'88te, fr. L. bestia.] 1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [Obs.] Chaucer. 2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.

3. As opposed to man: Any irrational animal. 4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. 5. A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.] Wright. 6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.] Chaucer. Syn. -- Beast, Brute. When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a beast, and then treated his family like a brute.

Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.

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Usage Examples

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don't think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.

Beauty and the Beast became the first animated feature ever nominated for best picture.

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.

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Other Usage Examples

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.

My big running discovery was around Stanley Park in Vancouver. Miss it. That's a six-mile loop. Now I smile when I get four miles done. Age is a beast.