2. (Naut.) Side by side; also, opposite; over against; on a line with the vessel's beam; -- with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Up to a certain level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [ or with ] the present state of science. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. At the same time; simultaneously. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Abreast therewith began a convocation. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden. [ 1913 Webster ]

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. Prov. xii. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. any animal other than a human; -- opposed to man. [ 1913 Webster ]

'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast.
W. C. Fields. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A game at cards similar to loo. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beast royal, the lion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Beast, Brute. When we use these words in a figurative sense, as applicable to human beings, we think of beasts as mere animals governed by animal appetite; and of brutes as being destitute of reason or moral feeling, and governed by unrestrained passion. Hence we speak of beastly appetites; beastly indulgences, etc.; and of brutal manners; brutal inhumanity; brutal ferocity. So, also, we say of a drunkard, that he first made himself a beast, and then treated his family like a brute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beastly divinities and droves of gods. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterizing the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of man; brutal; filthy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The beastly vice of drinking to excess. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Abominable; as, beastly weather. [ Colloq. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bestial; brutish; irrational; sensual; degrading. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat. [ 1913 Webster ]

My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mountains on whose barren breast
The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) (a) The face of a coal working. (b) The front of a furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. [ 1913 Webster ]

He has a loyal breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work. --
Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina. --
To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession. [ 1913 Webster ]

The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open-breasted, on these occasions. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A strap that runs across a horse's breast. Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Jewish Antiq.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The east began kindle. E. Everett. [1913 Webster]

2. The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. [1913 Webster]

The gorgeous East, with richest hand,
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold. Milton. [1913 Webster]

3. (U. S. Hist. and Geog.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. [1913 Webster]

East by north,
East by south, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 111/4° to the north or south, respectively, of the point due east. --
East-northeast,
East-southeast, that which lies 221/2° to the north or south of east, or half way between east and northeast or southeast, respectively. See Illust. of Compass. [1913 Webster]

2. (Eccl.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. designated for traffic moving toward the east; -- of lanes in roads or railroads, or other traffic lanes; as, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 are blocked by an overturned tractor-trailer; the train will leave on eastbound platform 5. [ PJC ]

2. The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Easter is used either adjectively or as the first element of a compound; as, Easter day or Easter-day, Easter Sunday, Easter week, Easter gifts, Easter eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sundays by thee more glorious break,
An Easter day in every week. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March, according to the rules laid down for the construction of the calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter day is the Sunday after. Eng. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Easter dues (Ch. of Eng.), money due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues, Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted. --
Easter egg. (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material, sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an Easter present. [ 1913 Webster ]

Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zoöl.) The smew. [ 1913 Webster ]