| Breed (breed) |
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| v. t. | ((?)) |
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| Breed |
[imp. *** p.
p. Bred (&?]); p. pr. *** vb. n.
Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. br&emacr]dan to nourish,
cherish, keep warm, from br d brood; akin to D. broeden |
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear;
to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age
of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education;
to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to
originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed
disease.
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as,
a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout
men.
To raise, as any kind of stock.
To produce or obtain by any natural
process.
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To bear
and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be
pregnant.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be
generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
To have birth; to be produced or
multiplied.
To raise a breed; to get progeny.
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A race or
variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or
distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or
qualities.
A number produced at once; a brood.
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