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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr & vb n.
{Breeding}.] [OE. breden, AS br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish,
keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood,
OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See {Brood}.]
1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to
procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth;
to bring up to nurse and foster.
To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.
--Dryden.
Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
--Everett.
3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;
-- sometimes followed by up
But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
--Bp. Burnet.
His farm may not remove his children too far from
him or the trade he breeds them up in --Locke.
4. To engender; to cause to occasion; to originate; to
produce; as to breed a storm; to breed disease.
Lest the place And my quaint habits breed
astonishment. --Milton.
5. To give birth to to be the native place of as a pond
breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
--Locke.
Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
bring up nourish; train; instruct.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breed \Breed\, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),
perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
inheritance.
Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
--Shak.
Greyhounds of the best breed. --Carpenter.
2. Class; sort; kind -- of men, things or qualities.
Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --Shak.
This courtesy is not of the right breed. --Shak.
3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
men.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breed \Breed\, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
itself to be pregnant.
That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
viii. 17.
The mother had never bred before --Carpenter.
Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I
can not tell I make it breed as fast --Shak.
2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to
grow, as young before birth.
3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between
them --Shak.
4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
The kind of animal which you wish to breed from
--Gardner.
{To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock
that are closely related.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
breed
n 1: a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
2: a special kind of domesticated animals within a species; "he
experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he
created a new variety of sheep" [syn: {strain}, {stock}, {variety}]
3: half-caste offspring of parents of different races
(especially of white and Indian parents) [syn: {half-breed}]
4: a lineage or race of people [syn: {strain}]
v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {spawn}]
2: copulate with a female, used esp. of horses; "The horse
covers the mare" [syn: {cover}]
3: of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
4: have young; used of animals; derogatory when used for people
[syn: {multiply}]
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