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adv.
In a rude or violent manner.
v. t.
To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize.
v. t.
To report; to bruit.
n.
A male person having another living being so far subject to his will, that he can, in the main, control his or its actions; -- formerly used with much more extensive application than now. (a) The employer of a servant. (b) The owner of a slave. (c) The person to whom an apprentice is articled. (d) A sovereign, prince, or feudal noble; a chief, or one exercising similar authority. (e) The head of a household. (f) The male head of a school or college. (g) A male teacher. (h) The director of a number of persons performing a ceremony or sharing a feast. (i) The owner of a docile brute, -- especially a dog or horse. (j) The controller of a familiar spirit or other supernatural being.
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Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.
n.
One of the race of horses described by Swift in his imaginary travels of Lemuel Gulliver. The Houyhnhnms were endowed with reason and noble qualities; subject to them were Yahoos, a race of brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men.
v. t.
To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal.
n.
A disease of brute animals, especially of horses, seated in the glands under the ear, where a tumor is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.
a.
Not rational; void of reason or understanding; as, brutes are irrational animals.
n.
Insensibility.
a.
Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
v. i.
To sink to the state of a brute.
v. t.
To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt.
a.
Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.
n.
The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls.
n.
Brutality.
n.
The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.
a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent.
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Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence.
v. t.
To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
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