Definition of beast

"beast" in the noun sense

1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

2. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat

a cruelly rapacious person

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Quotations for beast

Enough's as good as a feast
To one that's not a beast. [ Proverb ]

The gravest fish is an oyster,
The gravest bird's an owl,
The gravest beast's an ass,
And the gravest man's a fool. [ Proverb ]

Age and wedlock tame man and beast. [ Proverb ]

A mad beast must have a sober driver. [ Proverb ]

An eyesore; a bugbear (a black beast). [ French ]

A beast that wants discourse of reason. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A merciful man is merciful to his beast. [ Bible ]

The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Music's force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song. [ Prior ]

Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]

The beast that goes always never wants blows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

A good beast will get himself a heat with eating. [ Proverb ]

The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]

An ass is the gravest beast, an owl the gravest bird. [ Proverb ]

Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]

Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]

It is not the beast, but the mind, that is the sacrifice. [ Proverb ]

He a beast doth die that hath done no good to his country. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. [ Emerson ]

Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]

If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. [ La Harpe ]

Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia, she is a piece of furniture; in Europe, she is a spoiled child. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. [ Bacon ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]

beast in Scrabble®

The word beast is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters beast:

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beast in Words With Friends™

The word beast is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters beast:

ABETS
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BEATS
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(48)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In beast

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Words containing the sequence beast

Words that start with beast (6 words)

Words with beast in them (1 word)

Words that end with beast (1 word)

Word Growth involving beast

Shorter words in beast

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Longer words containing beast

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beastliest

beastliness

beastly

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