in a general sense, an appellation given to all four-footed animals, fit either for food, labour, or sport.

Beasts of burden, in a commercial sense, all four-footed animals which serve to carry merchandizes on their backs. The beasts generally used for this purpose, are elephants, dromedaries, camels, horses, mules, asses, and the sheep of Mexico and Peru.

Beasts of the chase are five; viz. the buck, the doe, the fox, the roe, and the martin.

Beasts and fowls of the warren, are the hare, the coney, the pheasant, and partridge.

Beasts of the forest are the hart, hind, hare, boar, and wolf.

Rother-Beasts. See Rother.