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250 words match “BREED”

BREED v. 14 definitions
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.
BREEDBATE n.
One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.
BREEDER n. 2 definitions
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.
BREEDING n. 5 definitions
raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
BREDE; BREEDE n.
Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.
CROSSBREED n. 2 definitions
A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks.
HALF-BREED a. 2 definitions
Half-blooded.
IMBREED v.
To generate within; to inbreed. [Obs.] Hakewill.
INBREED v. 2 definitions
To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton.
INTERBREED v.
To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
OVERBREED v.
To breed to excess.
SUBBREED n.
A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
UPBREED v.
To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.
ALDERNEY n.
One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.
ANADROMOUS a.
Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc.
ANCON n.
The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.
ARTICLE n.
; concern; distinct. [Obs.] A very great revolution that happened in this article of good breeding. Addison. This last article will hardly be believed. De Foe.
ASTONISHMENT n.
o the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.
AURELIAN n.
An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
AYRSHIRE n.
One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.
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