BREAST

breast

(noun) the part of an animal’s body that corresponds to a person’s chest

breast, chest

(noun) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen; “he beat his breast in anger”

breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty

(noun) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

breast, white meat

(noun) meat carved from the breast of a fowl

front, breast

(verb) confront bodily; “breast the storm”

summit, breast

(verb) reach the summit (of a mountain); “They breasted the mountain”; “Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit”

breast

(verb) meet at breast level; “The runner breasted the tape”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

breast (plural breasts)

(anatomy) Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.

(anatomy) The chest, or front of the human thorax.

A section of clothing covering the breast area.

The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.

The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.

The front or forward part of anything.

(mining) The face of a coal working.

(mining) The front of a furnace.

(obsolete) The power of singing; a musical voice.

Synonyms

• (female organs): See also breasts

• (chest): chest

• (seat of emotions): heart, soul

• (cut of poultry): white meat

• (cut of meat): brisket

Antonyms

• (cut of poultry): thigh, wing, dark meat

Verb

breast (third-person singular simple present breasts, present participle breasting, simple past and past participle breasted)

(transitive, often, figurative) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.

To reach the top (of a hill).

(transitive, cooking) To debreast.

Anagrams

• Baster, Be star, Sterba, Tarbes, abrest, barest, baster, bestar, rebats, tabers

Source: Wiktionary

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Breast, n. Etym: [OE. brest, breost, As. breóst; akin to Icel. brj, Sw. bröst, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.]

1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest. Milton.

4. (Mining) (a) The face of a coal working. (b) The front of a furnace.

5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self- consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. He has a loyal breast. Shak.

6. The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. [Obs.] By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. Shak. Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work.

– Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina.

– To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession.

Breast, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Breasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Breasted.]

Definition: To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. Wirt. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.

Brest, Breast, n. (Arch.)

Definition: A torus. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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