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Side by side, with breasts in a line; as, "Two men could hardly walk abreast." Macaulay.

A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.

A torus. [Obs.]

Abscess of the mammary gland.

Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.

The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

Folding or lapping over on the breast, with a row of buttons and buttonholes on each side; as, a double-breasted coat.

To surpass in singing. See Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.

The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.

Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.

Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast, n., 6. [Obs.]

To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom. [Obs.] P. Fletcher,

The goosander. [Local, U. S.]

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

sophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

he flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

e of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.