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That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

d. Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade, He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak.

various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin. Formerly worn by men on the hat. Honor 's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat. B. Jonson.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

A woman's breast. [Low]

ecially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

The red-breasted house sparrow of California (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

pen suddenly; as, to burst a cannon; to burst a blood vessel; to burst open the doors. My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage. Shak.

pture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast. Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

A piece of leather crossing the breast, used by the men who drag sledges in coal mines.

The keel of the breastbone of birds.

f birds, including all existing flying birds; -- So called from the carina or keel on the breastbone.

inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.

e genus Icteria, allied to the warblers, in America. The best known species are the yelow-breasted chat (I. viridis), and the long chat (I. longicauda). In Europe the name is given to several birds of the family Saxicolidæ, as the stonechat, and whinchat. Bush chat. (Zoöl.) See under Bush.

To open; to yawn. [Obs.] O, chaun thy breast. Marston.

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings. [Obs.] Gascoigne.

joined at one end to the scapula, or shoulder blade, and at the other to the sternum, or breastbone. In man each clavicle is shaped like the letter