Breed

·vt To raise, as any kind of stock.

II. Breed ·vi To raise a breed; to get progeny.

III. Breed ·noun A number produced at once; a brood.

IV. Breed ·vt To produce or obtain by any natural process.

V. Breed ·vi To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

VI. Breed ·noun Class; sort; kind;

— of men, things, or qualities.

VII. Breed ·vi To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

VIII. Breed ·vi To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

IX. Breed ·vt To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

X. Breed ·vt To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

XI. Breed ·noun A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.

XII. Breed ·vt To Educate; to Instruct; to form by education; to Train;

— sometimes followed by up.

XIII. Breed ·vt To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to Bear; to Procreate; to Generate; to Beget; to Hatch.

XIV. Breed ·vt To Engender; to Cause; to Occasion; to Originate; to Produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.