- (v.i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, as young before birth.
- (v.i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
- (v.i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- (v.t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
- (v.t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- (v.t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
- (v.t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things or qualities.
- (v.t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
- (v.t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- (v.t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- (v.i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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