adv. [ Pref. a- + breast. ] 1. Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, “Two men could hardly walk abreast.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [ or with ] the present state of science. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. At the same time; simultaneously. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. wearing no covering for the breasts or featuring such nudity. bare-breasted beauties parading along the beach"
Syn. -- braless, topless. [WordNet 1.5]

n. (British) an annual dinner party given by an employer for the employees. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F. bête, fr. L. bestia. ] 1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
W. C. Fields. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A game at cards similar to loo. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beast royal, the lion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Biestings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beastly + -head state. ] Beastliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being beastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [ Colloq. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. brest, breost, As. breóst; akin to Icel. brjōst, Sw. bröst, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust. ] 1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountains on whose barren breast
The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) The face of a coal working. (b) The front of a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has a loyal breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work. --
Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina. --
To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breasting. ] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. [ 1913 Webster ]

The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. (Arch.) A torus. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A band for the breast. Specifically: (Naut.) A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) The front transverse beam of a locomotive. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bone of the breast; the sternum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open-breasted, on these occasions. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garrison lean in firing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. High as the breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mach.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A knot of ribbons worn on the breast. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Antiq.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Breastband. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows. [ Written also brestsummer and bressummer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Fort.) A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Abscess of the mammary gland. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Bullfight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Clypeaster (L. clupeus shield + aster star) + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like or related to the genus Clupeaster; -- applied to a group of flattened sea urchins, with a rosette of pores on the upper side. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Eastward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. est, east, AS. eást; akin to D. oost, oosten, OHG. ōstan, G. ost, osten, Icel. austr, Sw. ost, Dan. öst, östen, Lith. auszra dawn, L. aurora (for ausosa), Gr. 'hw`s, "e`os, 'a`yws, Skr. ushas; cf. Skr. ush to burn, L. urere. √149, 288. Cf. Aurora, Easter, Sterling.] 1. The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west. [1913 Webster]

The east began kindle. E. Everett. [1913 Webster]

2. The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. [1913 Webster]

The gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. (U. S. Hist. and Geog.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. [1913 Webster]

East by north,
East by south, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 111/4° to the north or south, respectively, of the point due east. --
East-northeast,
East-southeast, that which lies 221/2° to the north or south of east, or half way between east and northeast or southeast, respectively. See Illust. of Compass. [1913 Webster]

a. 1. Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.
Syn. -- eastward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. designated for traffic moving toward the east; -- of lanes in roads or railroads, or other traffic lanes; as, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 are blocked by an overturned tractor-trailer; the train will leave on eastbound platform 5. [ PJC ]

adj. of a region of the U. S. generally including Kentucky and West Virginia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. eáster, eástran, paschal feast, Easter; akin to G. ostern; fr. AS. Eástre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor of whom a festival was celebrated in April; whence this month was called in AS. Eástermōnað. From the root of E. east. See East. ] 1. An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pascha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, pâque, or pask. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Easter is used either adjectively or as the first element of a compound; as, Easter day or Easter-day, Easter Sunday, Easter week, Easter gifts, Easter eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sundays by thee more glorious break,
An Easter day in every week. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Easter dues (Ch. of Eng.), money due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues, Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted. --
Easter egg. (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material, sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an Easter present. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Naut.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind. Russell. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) Any one of various lilies or lilylike flowers which bloom about Easter; specif.: (a) The common white lily (Lilium candidum), called also Annunciation lily. (b) The larger white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) called also Bermuda lily. (c) The daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus). (d) The Atamasco lily. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Sterling. ] 1. A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zoöl.) The smew. [ 1913 Webster ]