(a.) Not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious;
without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers
of nature.
(a.) Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute
beast; the brute creation.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, a brute beast.
Hence: Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute
violence.
(a.) Having the physical powers predominating over the mental;
coarse; unpolished; unintelligent.
(a.) Rough; uncivilized; unfeeling.
(n.) An animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human;
esp. a quadruped; a beast.
(n.) A brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling
or coarse person.
(v. t.) To report; to bruit.
