beastes

noun

1. (archaic, form-of, plural)plural of beast

   “Then either for God's sake or thy Neighbors, or both, be smothe, and participate; ist not some underlayer, some she Cammell, that will beare as much of her belly as three beastes on their backes? some Lanthorne-maker?”

   “In 1585 the British artist John White accompanied a group of colonists to the North Carolina coast with instructions to "drawe to liefe all strange birdes, beastes, fishes, plantes."”