n. (Zool.) See Birt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ F. brouter, OF. brouster. See Browse, n. ] To browse. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Fr. lit. rough. ] very dry; -- used of wine or champagne. [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., neuter pl., fr. L. brutus heavy, stupid. ] (Zool.) See Edentata. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. “Above the rest of brutal kind.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. “Brutal intemperance.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to treat brutally.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. to cause to become like a brute; as, life in the concentration camp had brutalised him.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. to become brutal.
Syn. -- brutalize. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Brutish quality; brutality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Brutalities [ Cf. F. brutalité. ] 1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inhuman act. [ 1913 Webster ]

The . . . brutalities exercised in war. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutalized p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing. ] [ Cf. F. brutaliser. ] To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brutal manner; cruelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. brut, nasc., brute, fem., raw, rough, rude, brutish, L. brutus stupid, irrational: cf. It. & Sp. bruto. ] 1. Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

A creature . . . not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast. Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having the physical powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ]

A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

brute force, The application of predominantly physical effort to achieve a goal that could be accomplished with less effort if more carefully considered. Figuratively, repetitive or strenuous application of an obvious or simple tactic, as contrasted with a more clever stratagem achieving the same goal with less effort; -- as, the first prime numbers were discovered by the brute force repetition of the Sieve of Eratosthenes. [ PJC ]

n. 1. An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brutes may be considered as either aërial, terrestrial, aquatic, or amphibious. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person. [ 1913 Webster ]

An ill-natured brute of a husband. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ For bruit. ] To report; to bruit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a rude or violent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Brutality. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Insensibility. “The bruteness of nature.” Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Brutified p. pr. & vb. n. Brutifying. ] [ Brute + -fy: cf. F. brutifier. ] To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. [ 1913 Webster ]

Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Browsing. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ]

O, let all provocation
Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insensible; stupid; unfeeling; savage; cruel; brutal; barbarous; inhuman; ferocious; gross; carnal; sensual; bestial. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Bru"tish*ly, adv. -- Bru"tish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The nature or characteristic qualities or actions of a brute; extreme stupidity, or beastly vulgarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- (L. in) + brute. Cf. Imbrute. ] To brutify; to imbrute. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the man embruted in the swine. Cawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imbruted; p. pr. & vb. n. Imbruting. ] [ Pref. im- in + brute: cf. F. abrutir. Cf. Embrute. ] To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. [ 1913 Webster ]

And mixed with bestial slime,
THis essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To sink to the state of a brute. [ 1913 Webster ]

The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose
The divine property of her first being. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted. [ R. ] Brydges. [ 1913 Webster ]