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Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. Crime and shame And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning.

A hoofed animal; a beast. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind. Ex. x. 26.

Headstrong. That hot-mouthed beast that bears against the curb. Dryden.

To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast. Wild howled the wind. Sir W. Scott. Howling monkey. (Zoöl.) See Howler, 2. -- Howling wilderness, a wild, desolate place inhabited only by wild beasts. Deut. xxxii. 10.

head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast.

young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific. Fishes are more numerous of increasing than beasts or birds, as appears by their numerous spawn. Sir M. Hale.

To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

A beast; especially, a beast of burden. [Obs.] Fitter for juments than men to feed on. Burton.

just enough, not covet more. Dryden. The god Pan guided my hand just to the heart of the beast. Sir P. Sidney. To-night, at Herne's oak, just 'twixt twelve and one. Shak.

The hole of a fox or other beast; a haunt.

neric class; as, in mankind or humankind. "Come of so low a kind." Chaucer. Every kind of beasts, and of birds. James iii.7. She follows the law of her kind. Wordsworth. Here to sow the seed of bread, That man and all the kinds be fed. Emerson.

To bring forth young. [Obs.] Shak. The poor beast had but lately kindled. Holland.

among competitors; as, a railroad king; a money king; the king of the lobby; the king of beasts.

A place in which to lie or rest; especially, the bed or couch of a wild beast.

es, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast. -- Land measure, the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement. -- Land, or House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition…

To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.

The leavings or dung of beasts.

or largest part; -- from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company with certain smaller beasts, and appropriating to himself all the prey.

t is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.

Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.