beast
beest
- n a living organism characterized by voluntary movement
- n a cruelly rapacious person
- Like a dumb beast in a show, Neither know what I am.
- In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown.
- The apocalypse probably seeped into Western thought via the Book of Daniel, with its 10-horned beast devouring the world, and the Book of Revelation's four grim horsemen.