Results for animal

Definition of animal:

• part of speech: (noun)

  An organised body, having life, sensation, and voluntary motion.

• part of speech: (noun)

  A body possessed of life, sensation, and power of motion.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Pertaining to a living creature; gross; opposite of spiritual.

• part of speech: (adjective)

  Animal.

Usage examples for animal:

“ To- day the high- spirited animal stood eating from the hand of her mistress, so gentle that Ned could hardly reconcile her present range with that of the track. ” The Higher Court, - Mary Stewart Daggett.

“ I was, in fact, under the lead of that animal ” Parisian Points of View, - Ludovic Halévy Commentator: Brander Matthews.