| ABREAST | • abreast adv. Side by side and facing forward. • abreast adv. (Figurative) Alongside; parallel to. • abreast adv. Informed, well-informed, familiar, acquainted. |
| BEANFEAST | • beanfeast n. (Chiefly Britain) A dinner party given to the employees of a firm. • beanfeast n. (Chiefly Britain) Any similar social occasion. • bean-feast n. Alternative form of beanfeast. |
| BEAST | • beast n. Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous… • beast n. (More specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal. • beast n. A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner. |
| BLUEBREAST | • bluebreast n. A small European bird, the bluethroat. • BLUEBREAST n. the blue-throated warbler. |
| BREAST | • breast n. (Anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human’s chest, which contain the mammary… • breast n. (Anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax. • breast n. A section of clothing covering the breast area. |
| CHIMNEYBREAST | • chimneybreast n. Alternative form of chimney-breast. • chimney-breast n. (Architecture) The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; commonly applied… • CHIMNEYBREAST n. the part of a wall that projects into a room and contains the fireplace and chimney. |
| CINEAST | • cineast n. An enthusiast of film and the cinema. • cineast n. A person in the filmmaking industry. • CINEAST n. (French) a devotee of motion pictures, also CINEASTE. |
| EAST | • east n. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on… • east n. The eastern region or area; the inhabitants thereof. • east adj. Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward. |
| FEAST | • feast n. A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature. • feast n. Something delightful. • feast n. A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. |
| HEAST | • heast n. Obsolete form of hest. • HEAST n. (Spenser) behest, command, also HEASTE, HEST. |
| LEAST | • least det. The most little; the smallest amount or quantity of something. • least adv. Used for forming superlatives of adjectives, especially those that do not form the superlative by adding -est. • least adv. In the smallest or lowest degree; in a degree below all others. |
| NORTHEAST | • northeast n. The intercardinal compass point halfway between north and east; specifically at a bearing of 45°. • northeast adj. Of, in or pertaining to the northeast; northeastern. • northeast adj. Situated toward or in the direction of the northeast; northeastward; northeasterly. |
| OUTFEAST | • outfeast v. (Transitive) To provide with a bigger or better feast than. • OUTFEAST v. to surpass in feasting. |
| REAST | • reast v. (Transitive) To dry or smoke (Meat, etc.). • REAST v. esp of horses, to be noisily uncooperative, also REEST. |
| REDBREAST | • redbreast n. Any of several unrelated birds that have a red breast. • REDBREAST n. the robin. |
| SOUTHEAST | • southeast n. The intercardinal compass point halfway between east and south; specifically at a bearing of 135°. • southeast adj. Of, in or pertaining to the southeast; southeastern. • southeast adj. Situated toward or in the direction of the southeast; southeastward; southeasterly. |
| YEAST | • yeast n. An often humid, yellowish froth produced by fermenting malt worts, and used to brew beer, leaven bread… • yeast n. A single-celled fungus of a wide variety of taxonomic families. • yeast n. (Figuratively) A frothy foam. |