Beef
[biːf] or [bif]
Definition
(noun.) cattle that are reared for their meat.
(noun.) meat from an adult domestic bovine.
Typed by Ernestine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
(n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.
(n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef.
Typist: Nora
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Flesh of neat-cattle.
Editor: Wallace
Definition
n. the flesh of an ox or cow:—pl. Beeves used in original sense oxen.—adj. consisting of beef.—ns. Beef′-eat′er (bēf′-ēt′ėr) a popular name for a yeoman of the sovereign's guard also of the warders of the Tower of London ; Beef′iness; Beef′steak a thick slice of beef for broiling or frying; Beef′tea a stimulating rather than nutritious food for invalids being the juice of beef strained off after simmering chopped beef in water.—adjs. Beef′-wit′ted Beef′-brained dull or heavy in wits: stupid.—n. Beef′-wood an Australian wood of reddish colour used in cabinetwork.—adj. Beef′y like beef fleshy stolid.
Typist: Michael
Unserious Contents or Definition
If raw and bloody, cancers and tumors of a malignant nature will attack the subject. Be on your guard as to bruises and hurts of any kind. To see, or eat cooked beef, anguish surpassing human aid is before you. Loss of life by horrible means will occur. Beef properly served under pleasing surroundings denotes harmonious states in love and business, if otherwise, evil is foreboded, though it may be of a trifling nature.
Checker: Melva
Examples
- Where's the beef and vegetables I sent home, and the pudding you promised? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Their mutton yields to ours, but their beef is excellent. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He therefore concluded that the stored-up fat in the animal was then converted into cream, and that it was practicable, therefore, to convert beef fat into butter fat. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A pint of porter with my cold beef at Marlborough was enough to over-set me. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- At one time, the beef was too large, at another the mutton was not fat enough. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In the parliamentary inquiry in 1764, the witnesses stated the price of the choice pieces of the best beef to be to the consumer 4d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I have a piece of beef which was dipped Feb. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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