Definition of creature

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Creature (n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature..

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Grazer :: Grazer (n.) One that grazes; a creature which feeds on growing grass or herbage.
Beast :: Beast (n.) Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc..
Mill :: Mill (v. i.) To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
Hyperdulia :: Hyperdulia (n.) Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.
Kip :: Kip (n.) The hide of a young or small beef creature, or leather made from it; kipskin..
Clod :: Clod (n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef..
Creaturize :: Creaturize (v. t.) To make like a creature; to degrad.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..
Animal :: Animal (a.) Pertaining to the merely sentient part of a creature, as distinguished from the intellectual, rational, or spiritual part; as, the animal passions or appetites..
Prodigious :: Prodigious (a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder..
Existence :: Existence (n.) That which exists; a being; a creature; an entity; as, living existences..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..
Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..
Chimera :: Chimera (n.) A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as, the chimera of an author..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of..
Fellow-creature :: Fellow-creature (n.) One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.
Creature :: Creature (n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man..
Moralist :: Moralist (n.) One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives.
Amphioxus :: Amphioxus (n.) A fishlike creature (Amphioxus lanceolatus), two or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebrae, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc..
Hexicology :: Hexicology (n.) The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally..
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