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& p. p. of Breed. Bred out, degenerated. "The strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey." Shak. -- Bred to arms. See under Arms. -- Well bred. (a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. "A gentleman well bred and of good name." Shak. [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] (b) Well brought up, as show…

The principal ward of a key. Knight.

b, or control; as, to bridle the passions; to bridle a muse. Addison. Savoy and Nice, the keys of Italy, and the citadel in her hands to bridle Switzerland, are in that consolidation. Burke.

The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

The rhesus monkey. See Rhesus.

The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.

trument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

things of the same kind, growing or fastened together; as, a bunch of grapes; a bunch of keys.

A donkey. [Southern U.S.]

Officious; meddling; foolish active. On meddling monkey, or on busy ape. Shak.

(a) The keynote of the normal or "natural" scale, which has neither flats nor sharps in its signature; also, the third note of the relative minor scale of the same (b) C after the clef is the mark of common time, in which each measure is a semibreve (four fourths or crotchets); for alla breve time it is written (c) The…

A small piece of mutton or other meat roasted on a skewer; -- so called in Turkey and Persia.

A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (or Brachyurus) melanocephala). [Written also cacajo.]

A humble inn or house of rest for travelers, where coffee is sold. [Turkey]

The root of an American shrub (Chiococca racemosa), found as far north as Florida Keys, from which cahincic acid is obtained; also, the root of the South American Chiococca anguifuga, a celebrated antidote for snake poison.

The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

ccessors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, now used by the sultans of Turkey, [Writting also calif.]

nt consisting of series of steam whistles, toned to the notes of the scale, and played by keys arranged like those of an organ. It is sometimes attached to steamboat boilers.

A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

A long-tailed South American monkey (Cabus capucinus), having the forehead naked and wrinkled, with the hair on the crown reflexed and resembling a monk's cowl, the rest being of a grayish white; -- called also capucine monkey, weeper, sajou, sapajou, and sai.