Part 980

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Beast</er>, <er>Brute</er>.</syn> <usage> When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of <i>beasts</i> as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of <i>brutes</i> as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of <i>beastly</i> appetites; <i>beastly</i> indulgences, etc.; and of <i>brutal</i> manners; <i>brutal</i> inhumanity; <i>brutal</i> ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a <i>beast</i>, and then treated his family like a <i>brute</i>.</usage>

<h1>Beasthood</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"hood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State or nature of a beast.</def>

<h1>Beastings</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"ings</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>See <er>Biestings</er>.</def>

<h1>Beastlihead</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"li*head</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Beastly</ets> + <ets>-head</ets> state.]</ety> <def>Beastliness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Beastlike</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"like"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a beast.</def>

<h1>Beastliness</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"li*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state or quality of being beastly.</def>

<h1>Beastly</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beast"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.</def>

<blockquote><b>Beastly</b> divinities and droves of gods. <i> Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>beastly</b> vice of drinking to excess. <i> Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Abominable; <as>as, <ex>beastly</ex> weather</as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq. Eng.]</mark>

<syn>Syn. -- Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading.</syn>

<h1>Beat</h1> <Xpage=129>

<hw>Beat</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp.</tt> <er>Beat</er>; <tt>p. p.</tt> <er>Beat</er>, <er>Beaten</er> <tt>(<?/)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Beating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>beaten</ets>, <ets>beten</ets>, AS. <ets>be\'a0tan</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>bauta</ets>, OHG. <ets>b<?/zan</ets>. Cf. 1st <er>Butt</er>, <er>Button</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; <as>as, to <ex>beat</ex> one's breast; to <ex>beat</ex> iron so as to shape it; to <ex>beat</ex> grain, in order to force out the seeds; to <ex>beat</ex> eggs and sugar; to <ex>beat</ex> a drum.</as></def>

<blockquote>Thou shalt <b>beat</b> some of it [spices] very small. <i>Ex. xxx. 36.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>They did <b>beat</b> the gold into thin plates. <i>Ex. xxxix. 3.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To punish by blows; to thrash.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To scour or range over in hunting, accompanied with the noise made by striking bushes, etc., for the purpose of rousing game.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>beat</b> the woods, and rouse the bounding prey. <i>Prior.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To dash against, or strike, as with water or wind.</def>