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A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech. I view the prince with Aristarchus' eyes, Whose looks were as a breeching to a boy. Marlowe.

A firearm which receives its load at the breech. For cavalry, the revolver and breechloader will supersede the saber. Rep. Sec. War (1860).

to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.

One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

aising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

ipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies. [Written also breese and brize.]

Motionless; destitute of breezes. A stagnant, breezeless air becalms my soul. Shenstone.

State of being breezy.

Characterized by, or having, breezes; airy. "A breezy day in May." Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth.

The beam which supports the spindle socket of the runner in a grinding mill. Knight.

A rough-haired East Indian variety of the greyhound.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

A separate, private, or obscure street; an out of the way or cross street. He seeks by-streets, and saves the expensive coach. Gay.

The pronghorn antelope. [Also written cabrit, cabret.]

ax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish white wax, which was formerly, used for hardening candles; -- also called bayberry tree, bayberry, or candleberry.

See Capper, a plant, 2.

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.