Search the Dictionary

imp. & 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…

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

Low; grovelling; vulgar.

Having fibers; made up of fibers.

Half-blooded. [Obs.]

Produced in hell. Spenser.

Bred in high life; of pure blood. Byron.

Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth.

Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv.

Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth. "Inbred sentiments." Burke.

Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life; characteristic or indicative of such breeding; rude; impolite; vulgar; as, a lowbred fellow; a lowbred remark.

Roughness; ruggedness. [Obs.] Burton.

Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]

Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n.

Of a genuine or right breed; as, a true-bred beast. Shak.

Not begotten; unborn. [Obs.] "Thou age unbred." Shak.

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.