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A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. Pope.

their shields close to one another in manner of a fence roof." Holland. Fence time, the breeding time of fish or game, when they should not be killed. -- Rail fence, a fence made of rails, sometimes supported by posts. -- Ring fence, a fence which encircles a large area, or a whole estate, within one inclosure. --…

Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address.

urage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding.

Persons of gentle or good family and breeding. Etym: [Generally in the United States in the plural form.] Shak.

A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon.

People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry. Macaulay.

woman never died after this, till she came to die for good and all. L'Estrange. -- Good breeding, polite or polished manners, formed by education; a polite education. Distinguished by good humor and good breeding. Macaulay. -- Good cheap, literally, good bargain; reasonably cheap. -- Good consideration (Law). (a) A c…

Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained. Atterbury.

l, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

ers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.

piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes.

able; anxious. "I am very ill at ease." Shak. -- Ill blood, enmity; resentment. -- Ill breeding, want of good breeding; rudeness. -- Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. -- Ill humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad dispo…

Indicating a lack of breeding, culture, and the like; ignoble; rude; narrow-minded; disingenuous.

Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark.

he principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband. Burrill. In and in breeding. See under Breeding. -- In and out (Naut.), through and through; -- said of a through bolt in a ship's side. Knight. -- To be in, to be at home; as, Mrs. A. is in. -- To come in. See under Come.

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.

Any act of rudeness or ill breeding. Uncomely jests, loud talking and jeering, which, in civil account, are called indecencies and incivilities. Jer. Taylor.

Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke.