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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak.
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If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
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2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth;
to bring up; to nurse and foster.
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To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.
--Dryden.
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Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
--Everett.
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3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;
-- sometimes followed by up.
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But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
--Bp. Burnet.
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His farm may not remove his children too far from
him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke.
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4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to
produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
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Lest the place
And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton.
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5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond
breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
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6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
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7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
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Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
--Locke.
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Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Breed \Breed\, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
itself; to be pregnant.
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That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
viii. 17.
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The mother had never bred before. --Carpenter.
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Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.
--Shak.
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2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to
grow, as young before birth.
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3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
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Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between them. --Shak.
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4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
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The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
--Gardner.
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To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock
that are closely related.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Breed \Breed\, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),
perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
inheritance.
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Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
--Shak.
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Greyhounds of the best breed. --Carpenter.
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2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
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Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --Shak.
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This courtesy is not of the right breed. --Shak.
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3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
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Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
men.
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WordNet Breed
n 1: a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
2: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
"he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he
created a new strain of sheep" [syn: strain, stock]
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 especially of horses; "The
horse covers the mare" [syn: cover]
3: of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
4: have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
[syn: multiply]
[also: bred]

Moby Dictionary
accrue , accumulate , advance , affiliation , animal kingdom ,
apparentation , appear , appreciate , apprentice , arise , author ,
balloon , be gravid , be knocked up , be pregnant , be with child ,
bear , beget , birth , bloat , blood , bloodline , boom , branch , brand ,
break , break in , breed true , bring about , bring forth ,
bring into being , bring to effect , bring to pass , bring up ,
broaden , brood , call into being , carry , carry young , cast , cause ,
character , children , clan , class , coin , color , common ancestry ,
conceive , concoct , condition , consanguinity , contrive , cook up ,
copulate , cover , create , crescendo , crossbreed , cultivate , culture ,
deme , denomination , derivation , descendants , descent , description ,
design , designation , develop , devise , direct line , discipline ,
discover , distaff side , do , dream up , drill , effect , effectuate ,
engender , establish , evolve , exercise , extraction , fabricate ,
family , farm , father , fatten , feather , feed , female line , fetch up ,
filiation , fit , folk , form , foster , found , frame , fruit , gain ,
gain strength , generate , genre , gens , genus , gestate , get ,
get ahead , get up , give being to , give birth to , give occasion to ,
give origin to , give rise to , go up , grain , grandchildren ,
great-grandchildren , groom , grow , hatch , heirs ,
hostages to fortune , house , house-train , housebreak , ilk , improve ,
improvise , inaugurate , inbreed , increase , incubate , induce ,
inheritors , institute , intensify , invent , issue , keep , kidney ,
kids , kin , kind , label , lick into shape , line , line of descent ,
lineage , little ones , lot , make , make do with , make love , make up ,
male line , manner , mark , matriclan , mature , mint , mold , mother ,
mount , multiply , muster up , nation , nature , new generation , number ,
nurse , nurture , occasion , offspring , order , originate , outbreed ,
patriclan , people , persuasion , phratry , phyle , phylum , plan ,
plant kingdom , posterity , practice , prepare , procreate , produce ,
progenerate , progeny , proliferate , propagate , put in tune ,
put to school , race , raise , ranch , ready , realize , rear , rehearse ,
reproduce , reproduce in kind , rise , rising generation , run , run up ,
seed , send to school , sept , set , set afloat , set on foot , set up ,
shape , shoot up , side , sire , sit , snowball , sons , sort , spawn ,
spear side , species , spindle side , spread , stamp , stem , stirps ,
stock , strain , strengthen , strike out , stripe , style , succession ,
swell , sword side , take in hand , the like of , the likes of ,
think out , think up , totem , train , treasures , tribe , type , variety ,
wax , widen , work , work up , younglings , youngsters