beaste
Italian edit
Verb edit
beaste
- inflection of beare:
- second-person plural past historic
- second-person plural imperfect subjunctive
Middle English edit
Noun edit
beaste (plural beastes)
- Alternative form of beeste
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)48/155 : Hye you lest this water fall That eyche beaste were in stall.
- c1600(c1350) Alex.Maced.(Grv 60)1142 : Tho [read: who; L qui] priked on a playne feelde þe perelous beaste, Hee shall raigne as a ryng ryall and noble.
- -?-(1474) Ordin.Househ.Pr.Edw.32* : The purveyors of beeves and muttons, of calves and lambes..hath to theire fees..the intrayles of every beaste excepte the oxe feete and the uthers.