1 gen 1616 anni - beast

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Chiefly an animal of the bovine kind. 1347 <i>son melior best pour son mortuer, </i>Healaugh (SS4/47); 1379 <i>Thomas de Manyngham, marchant de bestes</i>, Normanton (PTWR); 1558 <i>to dryve and fetch bestes</i>, Copley (YDK99). It was also used as a plural, as in the Beast Market, Huddersfield (HPN24). The ‘t’ is not pronounced and that can be reflected in the spelling: 1566 <i>of yong bease to grasse</i>, Woodsome (KayeCP); 1616 <i>20 head of yonge bease</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/122); 1722 <i>they jointly keep house together ... did increase in quick goods ... young bease and a galloway</i>, Sutton in Airedale (QS1/61/5).

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