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BEAST

Volume 4 · 102 words · 1842 Edition

general appellation given to all four-footed animals, fit either for food, labour, or sport. Beasts of Burden, in a commercial sense, are all four-footed animals which serve to carry merchandises on their backs. The beasts generally used for this purpose are elephants, dromedaries, camels, horses, mules, asses, and the sheep of Mexico and Peru. The Beasts of the Chase are five, viz., the buck, the doe, the fox, the roe, and the marten. The Beasts and Fowls of the Warren are the hare, the coney, the pheasant, and partridge. The Beasts of the Forest are the hart, hind, hare, boar, and wolf.