BREED
breed
(noun) a special type; “Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs”
breed, strain, stock
(noun) a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; “he experimented on a particular breed of white rats”; “he created a new strain of sheep”
breed, multiply
(verb) have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); “pandas rarely breed in captivity”
breed
(verb) cause to procreate (animals); “She breeds dogs”
breed, cover
(verb) copulate with a female, used especially of horses; “The horse covers the mare”
engender, breed, spawn
(verb) call forth
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
breed (third-person singular simple present breeds, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle bred)
To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
(transitive) To give birth to; to be the native place of.
Of animals, to mate.
To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
To arrange the mating of specific animals.
To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
To yield or result in.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
(sometimes as breed up) To educate; to instruct; to bring up
To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
(transitive) to ejaculate inside someone's ass
• year unknown, Tymber Dalton, Disorder in the House [Suncoast Society], Siren-BookStrand (), page 32
Synonyms
• (take care of in infancy and through childhood): raise, bring up, rear
Noun
breed (plural breeds)
All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
(informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
Anagrams
• berde, brede, rebed
Proper noun
Breed (plural Breeds)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Breed is the 12407th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2506 individuals. Breed is most common among White (83.32%) and Black/African American (10.53%) individuals.
Anagrams
• berde, brede, rebed
Source: Wiktionary
Breed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] Etym: [OE. breden, AS. bredan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brod brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brĂĽten. See Brood.]
1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.
2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.
3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.
4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.
5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke.
Syn.
– To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
Breed, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.
2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them. Shak.
4. To raise a breed; to get progeny. The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. Gardner. To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.
Breed, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak. Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter.
2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. Are these the breed of wits so wondered at Shak. This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak.
3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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