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- noun Archaic spelling of
beasts , plural form ofbeast .
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Examples
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And den CC gaved Lolcats dominion ober all the beastes of the feeld, all birds ob the air, and all the fishees in de sea.
In teh beginning, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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When Englishman John White set forth, armed with a sketchbook, to help found the colony of Virginia in 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh implored him, "Drawe to liefe all strange birds beastes fishes plantes hearbes ... the figures and shapes of men and women in their apparel."
Special Friends 2007
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Megasthenes writeth that vpon diuerse mounteines in Ynde, are people with dogges heades, and longe clawes, cladde in hydes of beastes, speakinge with no voyce like vnto manne, but barking onlye, muche like vnto dogges, with mouthes roughe like a grater.
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At the whiche tyme the Bugles, Pardales, and other greate beastes, what for the heate, and what for thriste, flocke toguether to the watres.
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Thei knowe none other kindes of pleasure or displeasure, but like vnto beastes, suche as thei fiele: neither haue thei any respecte to vertue, or vice, or any discernyng betwixte goode or badde.
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All these Yndians that I nowe haue spoken of, in quenching of natures heate, vse their women as secretly as beastes do their females.
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But the beastes aftre a while waxing noysome vnto them, they ware forced in commune for eche others sauftie to drawe into companies to resiste their anoyaunce, one helping another, and to sieke places to make their abiding in.
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Inso muche that some liued so wildely (as aftre thou shalt here) that it ware harde to discerne a difference betwixte them and the beastes of the felde.
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Of a Monastery where many strange beastes of diuers kindes doe liue vpon an hill.
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Not then enuironed with walles, ne pente vp with rampers, and diches of deapthe, but walking at free scope emong the wanderyng beastes of the fielde, and where the night came vpon theim, there takyng their lodgyng without feare of murtherer or thief.
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