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.
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.]