Hypertext Webster Gateway: "brute"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Brute \Brute\, n.
1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human;
esp. a quadruped; a beast.

Brutes may be considered as either a["e]ral,
terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. --Locke.

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as
unfeeling or coarse person.

An ill-natured brute of a husband. --Franklin.

Syn: See {Beast}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Brute \Brute\, v. t. [For bruit.]
To report; to bruit. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Brute \Brute\, a. [F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough,
rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp.
bruto.]
1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious;
without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the
brute powers of nature.

2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute
beast; the brute creation.

A creature . . . not prone And brute as other
creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason.
--Milton.

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.
Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless;
as, brute violence. --Macaulay.

The influence of capital and mere brute labor.
--Playfair.

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental;
coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. --Sir W.
Scott.

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [R.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

brute
adj : resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility;
"beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force";
"a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of
prisoners" [syn: {beastly}, {bestial}, {brute(a)}, {brutish}]
n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: {beast}, {wolf}, {savage},
{wildcat}]
2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn:
{animal}, {animate being}, {beast}, {creature}, {fauna}]


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