beast

n. animal; brutal person, cruel person

Beast is a word often used to describe an animal. In some uses, especially archaic or literary use, the term is restricted to four-legged mammals[1], but this is not always the case.
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Noun
1. a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
(synonym) animal, animate being, brute, creature, fauna
(hypernym) organism, being
(hyponym) critter
(member-holonym) Animalia, kingdom Animalia, animal kingdom
(substance-meronym) animal tissue
(part-meronym) head, caput
(class) crested, topknotted, tufted
2. a cruelly rapacious person
(synonym) wolf, savage, brute, wildcat
(hypernym) attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter

(n.)
Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
  

(n.)
As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
  

(n.)
Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
  

(n.)
Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
  

(n.)
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
  

(n.)
A game at cards similar to loo.
  

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. Beaten gold in Num. 8:4, means "turned" or rounded work in gold. The Greek Version, however, renders the word "solid gold;" the Revised Version, "beaten work of gold." In 1 Kings 10:16, 17, it probably means "mixed" gold, as the word ought to be rendered, i.e., not pure gold. Others render the word in these places "thin plates of gold." Beaten oil (Ex. 27:20; 29:40), obtained by pounding olives in a mortar, not by crushing them in a mill. It was reckoned the best. (See OLIVE.) Beautiful gate the name of one of the gates of the temple (Acts 3:2). It is supposed to have been the door which led from the court of the Gentiles to the court of the women. It was of massive structure, and covered with plates of Corinthian brass.