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Breed

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What's The Definition Of Breed?
[n] a lineage or race of people
[n] a special kind of domesticated animals within a species; "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he created a new variety of sheep" [n] a special lineage; "a breed of Americans" [n] half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) [v] have young; used of animals; derogatory when used for people [v] of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs" [v] copulate with a female, used esp. of horses; "The horse covers the mare" [v] call forth Synonyms | Synonyms for Breed: cover | engender | half-breed | multiply | spawn | stock | strain | strain | variety Related Terms | Find terms related to Breed: 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 | housebreak | house-train | 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 See Also | ancestry | ancestry | animal group | blood | blood line | bloodline | bloodstock | cause | copulate | couple | create | cross | crossbreed | derivation | descent | do | filiation | half-caste | hybridise | hybridize | interbreed | line | line of descent | lineage | lineage | make | make | mate | metis | mongrelise | mongrelize | origin | pair | parentage | pedigree | procreate | produce | pullulate | reproduce | species Breed In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond
breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. 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.
\Breed\, v. i. 1. 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. 2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. 3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. --Shak. 4. 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. \Breed\, n. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.] 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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