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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
breed
n 1: 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: breed, strain,
stock]
2: a special type; "Google represents a new breed of
entrepreneurs"
v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn]
2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse
covers the mare" [syn: breed, cover]
3: cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs"
4: have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely
breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce" [syn:
breed, multiply]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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Thesaurus Results for Breed:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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