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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. Beef tea, essence of beef, or strong beef broth.

Stupid; dull. Shak.

One who eats beef; hence, a large, fleshy person.

A steak of beef; a slice of beef broiled or suitable for broiling.

An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland.

Having much beef; of the nature of beef; resembling beef; fleshy.

Pickled or canned beef.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife. [R.] Cowell. Baron of beef, two sirloins not cut asunder at the backbone. -- Barons of the Cinque Ports, formerly members of the House of Commons, elected by the seven Cinque Ports, two for each port. -- Baron of the exchequer, the judges of the Court of Exchequer, one…

A beef; a beef creature. They would knock down the first beeve they met with. W. Irving.

; plural of Beef, the animal.

Boiled or stewed meat; beef boiled with vegetables in water from which its gravy is to be made; beef from which bouillon or soup has been made.

A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.

Broth or pottage. [Obs.] Let them of their Bonner's "beef" and "broth" make what brewis they please for their credulous guests. Bp. Hall.

made by pouring some boiling liquid on meal (esp. oatmeal), and stirring it. It is called beef brose, water brose, etc., according to the name of the liquid (beef broth, hot water, etc.) used. [Scot.]

lia. Some of them are large, producing hard and heavy timber of excellent quality, called beefwood from its color.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.