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inuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang. This momentary joy breeds months of pain. Shak.

The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. Drayton.

To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

One of a celebrated breed of American trotting horses; -- so called from the name of the stud from which the breed originated in Vermont.

ock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds. [U.S.]

eration of natural laws analogous, in its operation and results, to designed selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in the survival of the fittest. The theory of natural selection supposes that this has been brought about mainly by gradual changes of environment which have led to corresponding changes…

Habitual carelessness; negligence. Age breeds neglect in all. Denham.

A Newfoundland dog. Tennyson. Newfoundland dog (Zoöl.), a breed of large dogs, with shaggy hair, which originated in Newfoundland, noted for intelligence, docility, and swimming powers.

A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color.

he ghost moth. It is very injurious to hop vines. Otter hound, Otter dog (Zoöl.), a small breed of hounds, used in England for hunting otters. -- Otter sheep. See Ancon sheep, under Ancon. -- Otter shell (Zoöl.), very large bivalve mollusk (Schizothærus Nuttallii) found on the northwest coast of America. It is excell…

they have a pearly interior, and are allied to the fresh-water mussels. -- Oyster bed, a breeding place for oysters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wa…

To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding.

he moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swarms in June or July.

A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.

One of a breed of draught horses originating in Perche, an old district of France; -- called also Percheron-Norman.

of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al (#), a. -- Phe`no*log"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Phe*nol"o*gist (#), n.

The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.

One who breeds fish.

A breed of dogs having curly hair, and often showing remarkable intelligence in the performance of tricks.