| Breast (breast) |
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| n. | (br&ebreve]st) |
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| Breast |
[OE. brest,
breost, As. breóst; akin to Icel. brj st,
Sw. bröst, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS.
briost, D. borst, G. brust.] |
The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest;
as, the breast of a man or of a horse.
Either one of the protuberant glands, situated
on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other
mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a
mamma; a teat.
Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom;
the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow
breast; the breast of a hill.
The face of
a coal working.
The seat of consciousness; the repository of
thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections
and passions; the heart.
The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so
called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which
lie within the breast.
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| Breast (breast) |
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| v. t. | |
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| Breast |
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To meet, with the breast] to struggle with or
oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
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