Definition of brute:
(n) :
an animal destitute of human reason; any animal not human; esp. a quadruped; a beast; a brutal person; a savage in heart or manners; as unfeeling or coarse person
(v) :
to report; to bruit
(adj) :
not having sensation; senseless; inanimate; unconscious; without intelligence or volition; as, the brute earth; the brute powers of nature; not possessing reason, irrational; unthinking; as, a brute beast; the brute creation