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4 definitions found 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]: Breeding \Breed"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak. 4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of or training in the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. --Hume. 5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak. {Close breeding}, {In and in breeding}, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. {Cross breeding}, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. {Good breeding}, politeness; genteel deportment. Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See {Education}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: breeding adj : producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes" n 1: elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression [syn: {refinement}, {genteelness}, {gentility}] 2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: {education}, {training}] 3: raising someone to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: {bringing up}, {fostering}, {fosterage}, {nurture}, {nurturing}, {raising}, {rearing}, {upbringing}] 4: the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization 5: the activity of conceiving and bearing offspring [syn: {reproduction}, {procreation}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: Breeding, KY Zip code(s): 42715
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