Breeding

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Descent; pedigree; extraction.

II. Breeding ·noun Nurture; education; formation of manners.

III. Breeding ·noun The act or process of generating or bearing.

IV. Breeding ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Breed.

V. Breeding ·noun The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

VI. Breeding ·noun Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.