Part 1376

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.</def>

<blockquote>To bring thee forth with pain, with care to <b>breed</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Born and <b>bred</b> on the verge of the wilderness. <i>Everett.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by <i>up</i>.</def>

<blockquote>But no care was taken to <b>breed</b> him a Protestant. <i>Bp. Burnet.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he <b>breeds</b> them up in. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; <as>as, to <ex>breed</ex> a storm; to <ex>breed</ex> disease.</as></def>

<blockquote>Lest the place And my quaint habits <b>breed</b> astonishment. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To give birth to; to be the native place of; <as>as, a pond <ex>breeds</ex> fish; a northern country <ex>breeds</ex> stout men.</as></def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To raise, as any kind of stock.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>To produce or obtain by any natural process.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Children would <b>breed</b> their teeth with less danger. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.</syn>

<h1>Breed</h1> <Xpage=179>

<hw>Breed</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.</def>

<blockquote>That they <b>breed</b> abundantly in the earth. <i>Gen. viii. 17.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The mother had never <b>bred</b> before. <i>Carpenter.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Ant</b>. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? <b>Shy</b>. I can not tell. I make it <b>breed</b> as fast. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.</def>

<blockquote>Heavens rain grace On that which <b>breeds</b> between them. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To raise a breed; to get progeny.</def>

<blockquote>The kind of animal which you wish to <b>breed</b> from. <i>Gardner.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To breed in and in</col>, <cd>to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.</cd></cs>

<h1>Breed</h1> <Xpage=179>

<hw>Breed</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.</def>

<blockquote>Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's <b>breed</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Greyhounds of the best <b>breed</b>. <i>Carpenter.</i></blockquote>