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Breed (&unr_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. br&ē;dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br&ō;d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br&ü;ten. See Brood.] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
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Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak.
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If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.
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2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
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To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden.
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Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.
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3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
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But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet.
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His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.
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4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
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Lest the place
And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
Milton.
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5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
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6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
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7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
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Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.
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Syn. -- To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
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Breed, v. i. 1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
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That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17.
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The mother had never bred before. Carpenter.
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Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.
Shak.
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2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
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3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
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Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between them.
Shak.
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4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
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The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. Gardner.
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To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.
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Breed, n. 1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
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Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak.
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Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter.
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2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
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Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? Shak.
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This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.
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3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
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&hand_; Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men.
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