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| beast | (n) a cruelly rapacious person, Syn. savage, wildcat, brute, wolf |
| beastliness | (n) the quality of being deliberately mean, Syn. meanness |
| beastliness | (n) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather |
| beastly | (adj) very unpleasant, Syn. god-awful, hellish, Example: hellish weather; stop that god-awful racket |
| beastly | (adj) resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility, Syn. brutish, bestial, brute, brutal, Example: beastly desires; a bestial nature; brute force; a dull and brutish man; bestial treatment of prisoners |
| beastly | (adv) in a beastly manner, Example: she behaved beastly toward her mother-in-law |
| beast of burden | (n) an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work, Syn. jument |
| Beast | n. [ OE. best, beste, OF. beste, F. bête, fr. L. bestia. ] A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ] 'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
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| Beasthood | n. State or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beastings | n. pl. See Biestings. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beastlihead | n. [ Beastly + -head state. ] Beastliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beastlike | a. Like a beast. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beastliness | n. The state or quality of being beastly. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Beastly | a. Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ] The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ] |