BREED

vt to raise, as any kind of stock.

2. breed ·vi to raise a breed; to get progeny.

3. breed ·noun a number produced at once; a brood.

4. breed ·vt to produce or obtain by any natural process.

5. breed ·vi to have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

6. breed ·noun class; sort; kind;

— of men, things, or qualities.

7. breed ·vi to bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

8. breed ·vi to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

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

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

11. breed ·noun a race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.

12. breed ·vt to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;

— sometimes followed by up.

13. breed ·vt to produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

14. breed ·vt to engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.