·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.