beasts

Noun

beast (plural beasts)

1. Any four-footed land mammal.
   • Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.1611, “Leviticus 11:3”, in King James Version
2. (collective, often) All non-human animals seen as a group.
   • Language is what separates man and beast.
3. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
4. (UK) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
   • […] it always had the making of a fine beast about it, but up to the time I had it up here in a stall by itself it did not get the chance to make any headway [ie, fatten], all its mates were down on it and it never seemed to fill itself. […] A big framed beast takes a lot of food — expensive food...1908 September 21, “The fattening beast”, in Mark Lane Express Agricultural Journal, page 340
5. A monstrously unusual and dangerous animal.

   Synonyms:

   monster

6. (slang) Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.
   • That is a beast of a stadium.

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