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Breeding   /brˈidɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Breeding  n.  
1.
The act or process of generating or bearing.
2.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
3.
Nurture; education; formation of manners. "She had her breeding at my father's charge."
4.
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. "Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse."
5.
Descent; pedigree; extraction. (Obs.) "Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding."
Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage.
Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage.
Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.
Synonyms: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education.


verb
Breed  v. t.  (past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)  
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." "If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog."
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." "Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness."
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." "His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in."
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."
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."
Synonyms: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.


Breed  v. i.  (past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)  
1.
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. "That they breed abundantly in the earth." "The mother had never bred before." "Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast."
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."
4.
To raise a breed; to get progeny. "The kind of animal which you wish to breed from."
To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.





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"Breeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... numerous and powerful Navajo Indians. They were not so much dreaded by us, their Reservation being further away, and they then being of a peaceful disposition, devoted to horse and sheep breeding and ...
— Ranching, Sport and Travel • Thomas Carson
... Larry waited, two tall, sturdy, well-groomed, fine-looking youths, bearing the indefinable stamp of good birth and breeding, the inheritance of a long line of clean strong men and gentle women—the kind of thing not forged in one generation but ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... for because the world is populous, And heere is not a Creature, but my selfe, I cannot do it: yet Ile hammer't out. My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule, My Soule, the Father: and these two beget A generation of still breeding Thoughts; And these same Thoughts, people this Little World In humors, like the people of this world, For no thought is contented. The better sort, As thoughts of things Diuine, are intermixt With scruples, and do set the Faith it selfe Against the Faith: as thus: Come litle ones: ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... to the English people the choice of its fate is very near now. It may spasmodically defend its property with iron walls a fathom thick, a few years longer—a very few. No walls will defend either it, or its havings, against the multitude that is breeding and spreading faster than the clouds, over the habitable earth. We shall be allowed to live by small pedler's business, and iron-mongery—since we have chosen those for our line of life—as long as we are found ...
— The Queen of the Air • John Ruskin
... demonstration farms or experiment stations are maintained at convenient points. Thirty-seven practical stockmen have also been employed to give special attention to this part of the work, and the Indians are said to be cooperating intelligently in the effort to improve their breeding stock. ...
— The Indian Today - The Past and Future of the First American • Charles A. Eastman


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