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BREED, v.t. pret. and pp. bred.

1. To generate; to engender; to hatch; to produce the young of any species of animals. I think it is never used of plants, and in animals is always applied to the mother or dam.

2. To produce within or upon the body; as, to breed teeth; to breed worms.

3. To cause; to occasion; to produce; to originate.

Intemperance and lust breed infirmities.

Ambition breeds factions.

4. To contrive; to hatch; to produce by plotting.

Had he a heart and a brain to breed it in?

5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds a race of stout men.

6. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; often, but unnecessarily, followed by up; as, to breed a son to an occupation; a man bred at a university. To breed up is vulgar.

7. To bring up; to nurse and foster; to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to provide for, train and conduct; to instruct the mind and form the manners in youth.

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.

BREED, v.i. To produce, as a fetus; to bear and nourish, as in pregnancy; as, a female breeds with pain.

1. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth; as,children or young breed in the matrix.

2. To have birth; to be produced; as, fish breed in rivers.

3. To be increased by a new production.

But could youth last and love still breed.

4. To raise a breed; as, to choose the best species of swine to breed from.

BREED, n. A race or progeny from the same parents or stock.

1. A cast; a kind; a race of men or other animals, which have an alliance by nativity, or some distinctive qualities in common; as a breed of men in a particular country; a breed of horses or sheep. Applied to men, it is not elegant. We use race.

2. Progeny; offspring; applied to other things than animals.

3. A number produced at once, a hatch; a brood; but for this, brood is generally used.



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BREED, v.t. pret. and pp. bred.

1. To generate; to engender; to hatch; to produce the young of any species of animals. I think it is never used of plants, and in animals is always applied to the mother or dam.

2. To produce within or upon the body; as, to breed teeth; to breed worms.

3. To cause; to occasion; to produce; to originate.

Intemperance and lust breed infirmities.

Ambition breeds factions.

4. To contrive; to hatch; to produce by plotting.

Had he a heart and a brain to breed it in?

5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds a race of stout men.

6. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; often, but unnecessarily, followed by up; as, to breed a son to an occupation; a man bred at a university. To breed up is vulgar.

7. To bring up; to nurse and foster; to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to provide for, train and conduct; to instruct the mind and form the manners in youth.

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.

BREED, v.i. To produce, as a fetus; to bear and nourish, as in pregnancy; as, a female breeds with pain.

1. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth; as,children or young breed in the matrix.

2. To have birth; to be produced; as, fish breed in rivers.

3. To be increased by a new production.

But could youth last and love still breed.

4. To raise a breed; as, to choose the best species of swine to breed from.

BREED, n. A race or progeny from the same parents or stock.

1. A cast; a kind; a race of men or other animals, which have an alliance by nativity, or some distinctive qualities in common; as a breed of men in a particular country; a breed of horses or sheep. Applied to men, it is not elegant. We use race.

2. Progeny; offspring; applied to other things than animals.

3. A number produced at once, a hatch; a brood; but for this, brood is generally used.

BREED, n.

  1. A race or progeny from the same parents or stock.
  2. A cast; a kind; a race of men or other animals, which have an alliance by nativity, or some distinctive qualities in common; as, a breed of men in a particular country; a breed of horses or sheep. Applied to men, it is not elegant. We use race.
  3. Progeny; offspring: applied to other things than animals. – Shak.
  4. A number produced at once; a hatch; a brood; but for this, brood is generally used. – Grew.

BREED, v.i.

  1. To produce, as a fetus; to bear and nourish, as in pregnancy; as a female breeds with pain.
  2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth; as, children or young breed in the matrix.
  3. To have birth; to be produced; as, fish breed in rivers.
  4. To be increased by a new production. But could youth last, and love still breed. – Ralegh.
  5. To raise a breed; as, to choose the best species of swine to breed from.

BREED, v.t. [pret. and pp. bred. Sax. bredan, brædan, to warm, to dilate, to open, to spread; D. broeden, to brood; Ger. brüten, to brood; Dan. breder, to spread, dilate, unfold; W. brwd, warm; brydiaw, to warm, to heat. Class Rd. See Broad.]

  1. To generate; to engender; to hatch; to produce the young of any species of animals. I think it is never used of plants, and in animals is always applied to the mother or dam.
  2. To produce within or upon the body; as, to breed teeth; to breed worms.
  3. To cause; to occasion; to produce; to originate. Intemperance and lust breed infirmities. – Tillotson. Ambition breeds factions. – Anon.
  4. To contrive; to hatch; to produce by plotting. Had he a heart and a brain to breed it in? – Shak.
  5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds a race of stout men.
  6. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; often, but unnecessarily, followed by up; as to breed a son to an occupation; a man bred at a university. To breed up is vulgar.
  7. To bring up; to nurse and foster; to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to provide for, train and conduct; to instruct the mind and form the manners in youth. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. – Dryden.

Breed
  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 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

    Heavens rain grace
    On that which breeds between them.
    Shak.

  9. A number produced at once; a brood.

    [Obs.]

    * Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
  13. To raise, as any kind of stock.
  14. 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.

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Breed

BREED, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive bred.

1. To generate; to engender; to hatch; to produce the young of any species of animals. I think it is never used of plants, and in animals is always applied to the mother or dam.

2. To produce within or upon the body; as, to breed teeth; to breed worms.

3. To cause; to occasion; to produce; to originate.

Intemperance and lust breed infirmities.

Ambition breeds factions.

4. To contrive; to hatch; to produce by plotting.

Had he a heart and a brain to breed it in?

5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds a race of stout men.

6. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; often, but unnecessarily, followed by up; as, to breed a son to an occupation; a man bred at a university. To breed up is vulgar.

7. To bring up; to nurse and foster; to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to provide for, train and conduct; to instruct the mind and form the manners in youth.

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed

BREED, verb intransitive To produce, as a fetus; to bear and nourish, as in pregnancy; as, a female breeds with pain.

1. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth; as, children or young breed in the matrix.

2. To have birth; to be produced; as, fish breed in rivers.

3. To be increased by a new production.

But could youth last and love still breed

4. To raise a breed; as, to choose the best species of swine to breed from.

BREED, noun A race or progeny from the same parents or stock.

1. A cast; a kind; a race of men or other animals, which have an alliance by nativity, or some distinctive qualities in common; as a breed of men in a particular country; a breed of horses or sheep. Applied to men, it is not elegant. We use race.

2. Progeny; offspring; applied to other things than animals.

3. A number produced at once, a hatch; a brood; but for this, brood is generally used.

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