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To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.

tered or written. O, let my books be then the eloquence And dumb presagers of my speaking breast. Shak.

s; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.

To freeze; to congeal. [Obs.] Thou hast enfrozened her disdainful breast. Spenser.

th lace; to lace; to encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered…

rs, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.

oring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

or rankle. For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate, And fstered ranking malice in my breast. Marston.

To march in a file or line, as soldiers, not abreast, but one after another; -- generally with off. To file with, to follow closely, as one soldier after another in file; to keep pace. My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires, Yet filed with my abilities. Shak.

sionate excitement or anger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

d thus bear them over the shoal. Flash wheel (Mech.), a paddle wheel made to revolve in a breast or curved water way, by which water is lifted from the lower to the higher level.

h violence or haste. And crop-full, out of doors he flings. Milton. I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after battle, flings to sheath. Mrs. Browning. To fling out, to become ugly and intractable; to utter sneers and insinuations.

To caress; to fondle. [Obs.] The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast. Dryden.

The breast beam of a loom.

ber placed across the stem, to unite the bows and strengthen the fore part of the ship; a breast hook.

To lie in front of. [Obs.] Which forelay Athwart her snowy breast. Spenser.

ts father. -- Foster brother, Foster sister, one who is, or has been, nursed at the same breast, or brought up by the same nurse as another, but is not of the same parentage. -- Foster dam, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse. Dryden. -- Foster earth, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its nati…