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   Breed , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. brēdan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brōd brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brüten. See Brood.]
   To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
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   Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.
   Shak.
   
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   If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog.
   Shak.
   
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   To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
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   To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.
   Dryden.
   
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   Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
   Everett.
   
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   To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
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   But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
   Bp. Burnet.
   
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   His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.
   Locke.
   
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   To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
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   Lest the place
   And my quaint habits breed astonishment.
   Milton.
   
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   To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
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   To raise, as any kind of stock.
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   To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
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   Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
   Locke.
   
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   Syn. -- To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
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   Breeding , n.
   The act or process of generating or bearing.
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   The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
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   Nurture; education; formation of manners.
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   She had her breeding at my father's charge.
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   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.
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   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.
   Hume.
   
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   Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.]
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   Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding.
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   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.
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   Syn. -- Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education.
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