4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breast \Breast\ (br[e^]st), n. [OE. brest, breost, As
bre['o]st; akin to Icel. brj[=o]st, Sw br["o]st, Dan. bryst,
Goth. brusts OS briost D. borst, G. brust.]
1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly;
the chest; as the breast of a man or of a horse.
2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the
front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of
some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the
nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.
My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother.
--Cant. viii.
1.
3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front
or forward part of anything as a chimney breast; a plow
breast; the breast of a hill.
Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds
do often rest. --Milton.
4. (Mining)
a The face of a coal working.
b The front of a furnace.
5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and
self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the
affections and passions; the heart.
He has a loyal breast. --Shak.
6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called
probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs,
which lie within the breast. [Obs.]
By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast.
--Shak.
{Breast drill}, a portable drilling machine, provided with a
breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work
{Breast pang}. See {Angina pectoris}, under {Angina}.
{To make a clean breast}, to disclose the secrets which weigh
upon one to make full confession.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.{Breasted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Breasting}.]
To meet with the breast; to struggle with or oppose
manfully; as to breast the storm or waves.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brest \Brest\, Breast \Breast\, n. (Arch.)
A torus. [Obs.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breast
n 1: the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen;
"he beat his breast in anger"
2: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on
the chest of a woman [syn: {bosom}, {knocker}, {boob}, {tit},
{titty}]
3: meat carved from the breast of a fowl [syn: {white meat}]
v 1: meet at breast level: "The runner breasted the tape"
2: reach the summit: "They breasted the mountain"
3: confront bodily; "breast the storm" [syn: {front}]
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