[Obs.] Otway.
Brustle
(Brus"tle), n. A bristle. [Obs. or Prov.] Chaucer.
Brut
(Brut) v. i. [F. brouter, OF. brouster. See Browse, n.] To browse. [Obs.] Evelyn.
Brut
(Brut), n. (Zoöl.) See Birt.
Bruta
(||Bru"ta) n. [NL., neuter pl., fr. L. brutus heavy, stupid.] (Zoöl.) See Edentata.
Brutal
(Bru"tal) a. [Cf. F. brutal. See Brute, a.]
1. Of or pertaining to a brute; as, brutal nature. "Above the rest of brutal kind." Milton.
2. Like a brute; savage; cruel; inhuman; brutish; unfeeling; merciless; gross; as, brutal manners. "Brutal intemperance."
Macaulay.
Brutalism
(Bru"tal*ism) n. Brutish quality; brutality.
Brutality
(Bru*tal"i*ty) n.; pl. Brutalities [Cf. F. brutalité.]
1. The quality of being brutal; inhumanity; savageness; pitilessness.
2. An inhuman act.
The . . . brutalities exercised in war.
Brougham.
Brutalization
(Bru`tal*i*za"tion) n. The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.
Brutalize
(Bru"tal*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Brutalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Brutalizing.] [Cf. F. brutaliser.]
To make brutal; beasty; unfeeling; or inhuman.
Brutalize
(Bru"tal*ize), v. i. To become brutal, inhuman, barbarous, or coarse and beasty. [R.]
He mixed . . . with his countrymen, brutalized with them in their habits and manners.
Addison.
Brutally
(Bru"tal*ly), adv. In a brutal manner; cruelly.
Brute
(Brute) 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.
2. Not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation.
A creature . . . not prone
And brute as other creatures, but endued
With sanctity of reason.
Milton.
