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Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness, n.

A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. [Obs.]

Ruttish; lustful.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H18, of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

To browse. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Edentata.

Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton.

Brutish quality; brutality.

The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.

In a brutal manner; cruelly.

sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature.

In a rude or violent manner.

Brutality. [Obs.] Spenser.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

Browsing. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. O, let all provocation Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Tay…

The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity.