Word Finder - beast

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Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.

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(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.

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A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.

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Anything regarded as larger or more powerful than one of its normal size or strength.

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That is a beast of a stadium.

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Someone who is particularly impressive, especially athletically or physically.

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(prisons) A sex offender.

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Something unpleasant and difficult.

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A thing or matter, especially a difficult or unruly one.

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To impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.

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(chiefly Midwestern and northeastern US) great; excellent; powerful

The beast was very close to him now.

She turned away, seeking to suppress the beast, and grabbed her sword.

The beast inside her was subdued, waiting.

With my help, the beast reminded her.

The wolf is a ravenous beast, and thirsts for blood.

The beast stirred as well.

He raised his gun and fired at the great beast.

Finally, he landed a sharp blow to his horse's rump and made the beast dart in the direction he wanted.

It is a very quick and highly irascible beast and even known to turn on its pursuer.

Every beast, camel, cow, sheep, donkey and horse is made to pay.

On the other hand, if we refuse to accept this identification, and hold that the beast from the abyss is yet to come, any attempt at a strict exegesis of the text plunges us in hopeless difficulties.

Beliefs and practices with reference to the heavenly world were inspired by zoic activities; its location, scenery and environment were the homes of beast gods.

Titanotherium, of the Oligocene of the Dakotas and neighbouring districts, was a huge beast, with the hinder upper premolars similar in character to the molars, a pair of horn-cores, arising from the maxilla, overhanging the nose-cavity, four front and three hind toes, only twenty dorso-lumbar vertebrae, and an almost continuous and unbroken series of teeth, in which the canines are short; the dental formula being i.

William Twici, indeed, who was huntsman-in-chief to Edward Fox II., and who wrote in Norman French a treatise on hunting, 6 mentions the fox as a beast of venery, but obviously as an altogether inferior object of sport.

I'm happy to see you instead of an Immortal mood beast.

Armed only with a Dirk he slew the beast.

The Beast uses the plant 's own refrigerant charge to carry out a deep clean.

Ako pushed his way through and delivered a sickening blow to the beast 's head.

Talk to Beast after returning to Beast's Castle.

The beast itself told her thus.

Thus Joachim of Floris in his Expositio magni abbatis I oachimi in Apoc. teaches that Babylon is Rome, the Beast from the Sea Islam, the False Prophet the heretical sects of the day, and that on the close of the present age which was at hand the millennium would ensue.

Thus he refuses to recognize Nero in the beast and its number.

Various solutions have been offered as to the seven emperors designed by the seven heads of the beast, xiii.

But this was not the original significance of the fourth beast, for the author of Daniel referred thereby to the Greek empire; but, since the prophecy was not realized, it was subsequently reinterpreted, and applied, as we have observed, to Rome.

The figure of the first beast presents many difficulties, owing to the fact that it is not freely invented but largely derived from traditional elements and is by the writer identified with the seventh wounded head.

The second beast, signifying the pagan priesthood of the imperial cult, called "the false prophet" in xvi.

The writer manifests the most burning hatred towards Rome and the worship of its head - the beast and the false prophet, who are actual embodiments of Satan.

Some scholars are of opinion that this writer identified Domitian with the eighth emperor, the Nero redivivus, the beast from the abyss.

For no beast however mighty, no bird however graceful, was a fit companion for God's masterpiece, and, apart from the serpent, the animals had no faculty of speech.

The Great Mart survives only in the Beast Mart held on the 11th of December.

After a short prayer, the abbot committed the guest to the care of the brother hospitaller, whose duty it was to provide for his wants and conduct the beast on which he numerary monks.

For the next two years all Hungary was convulsed by a horrible civil war, during which the unhappy young king, who fought for his heritage to the last with desperate valour, was driven from one end of his kingdom to the other like a hunted beast.

One of the most singular of furbearing animals, being the link between bird and beast.

To his enemy, Bernard Saisset, he was neither man nor beast, but a statue, "the handsomest man in the world, but unable to do anything but stare fixedly at people without saying a word."

The tradition of Gelert, Llewelyn's hound, being buried there is old in Wales; and common to it and India is the legend of a dog (or ichneumon) saving a child from a beast of prey (or reptile), and being killed by the child's father under the delusion that the animal had slain the infant.

Ricotti, "no citizens in the cities, neither man nor beast in the fields, all the land forest-clad and wild; one sees no houses, for most of them are burnt, and of nearly all the castles only the walls are visible; of the inhabitants, once so numerous, some have died of the plague or of hunger, some by the sword, and some have fled elsewhere preferring to beg their bread abroad rather than support misery at home which is worse than death."

The word "animal" in the act includes bird, beast, fish or reptile.

Leslie is taking time off as another TEN women branded him an aggressive sex beast.

Although groups have tried to stop the behemoth of the Euro state, the beast is now in existence and its growth is inexorable.

Nearby is an interesting modern sculpture of the mythical beast called a chimera.

The final beast destroyed and universal dominion given to the Son of Man.

This product has revamped my gigabit Ethernet 450 dual into a real beast.

Son of Beast is one of the longest, tallest, and fastest wooden roller coasters in the world, and when it first opened it included the only vertical loop on any wooden coaster in the world.

His work with Beauty and The Beast helped him land a record deal that would change the life of the entire Jonas clan.

The early 90s saw five more series films featuring this now mythical beast, but given that the height of the original Godzilla was 167 feet, many fans often ask, how tall is Godzilla today?

It is universally used as a draught animal and beast of burden.

Greaves were found at Glasinatz and Jezerin, though not at Hallstatt; two helmets were found at Hallstatt and others in Bosnia; broad bronze belts were numerous, adorned in repousse with beast and geometric ornament.

He is of great size, his skin is magnificent, and he is so widely distributed as to be a peril to man and beast.

Haunting buildings and famous ruins, gliding around pools, walls and trees, mysteriously disappearing below ground, the serpent and all its kind invariably arrested attention through its uncanny distinctiveness from bird or beast.

A more curious case is that of the one-humped camel (Camelus dromedarius), a beast only known in domestication, and that in arid countries; yet a number of these have become feral in the Spanish marshes, where they wade about like quadrupedal flamingoes.