beast /ˈbist/
 野獸,牲畜,獸性;凶殘的人,舉止粗魯的人


 Beast n.
 1. Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc. [Obs.]
 2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
    A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.   --Prov. xii. 10.
 3. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man.
    'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
   --W. C. Fields.
 4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
 5. A game at cards similar to loo. [Obs.]
 6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
 Beast royal, the lion. [Obs.]
 Syn: -- Beast, Brute.
 Usage: 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.

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 beast
      n 1: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn:
           animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna]
      2: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: wolf, savage, brute,
         wildcat]


 Beast
    This word is used of flocks or herds of grazing animals (Ex.
    22:5; Num. 20:4, 8, 11; Ps. 78:48); of beasts of burden (Gen.
    45:17); of eatable beasts (Prov. 9:2); and of swift beasts or
    dromedaries (Isa. 60:6). In the New Testament it is used of a
    domestic animal as property (Rev. 18:13); as used for food (1
    Cor. 15:39), for service (Luke 10:34; Acts 23:24), and for
    sacrifice (Acts 7:42).

      When used in contradistinction to man (Ps. 36:6), it denotes a
    brute creature generally, and when in contradistinction to
    creeping things (Lev. 11:2-7; 27:26), a four-footed animal.

      The Mosaic law required that beasts of labour should have rest
    on the Sabbath (Ex. 20:10; 23:12), and in the Sabbatical year
    all cattle were allowed to roam about freely, and eat whatever
    grew in the fields (Ex. 23:11; Lev. 25:7). No animal could be
    castrated (Lev. 22:24). Animals of different kinds were to be
    always kept separate (Lev. 19:19; Deut. 22:10). Oxen when used
    in threshing were not to be prevented from eating what was
    within their reach (Deut. 25:4; 1 Cor.9:9).

      This word is used figuratively of an infuriated multitude (1
    Cor. 15:32; Acts 19:29; comp. Ps. 22:12, 16; Eccl. 3:18; Isa.
    11:6-8), and of wicked men (2 Pet. 2:12). The four beasts of
    Daniel 7:3, 17, 23 represent four kingdoms or kings.