Beast
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. A large and impressive automobile
Example sentence: He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Brute
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To shape (diamonds) by grinding them against each other.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast.A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person.A large, savage looking man.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.Purely physical.Harsh; blunt
Example sentence: The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.