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Definitions for: 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
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
Synonyms: cover, engender, half-breed, multiply, spawn, stock, strain, strain, variety
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
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