breed

breed
    n 1: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
         "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he
         created a new strain of sheep" [syn: {breed}, {strain},
         {stock}]
    2: a special type; "Google represents a new breed of
       entrepreneurs"
    v 1: call forth [syn: {engender}, {breed}, {spawn}]
    2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse
       covers the mare" [syn: {breed}, {cover}]
    3: cause to procreate (animals); "She breeds dogs"
    4: have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely
       breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce" [syn:
       {breed}, {multiply}]
    

Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Breeding}.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish,
   keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood,
   OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See {Brood}.]
   1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to
      procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
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            Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak.
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            If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
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   2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth;
      to bring up; to nurse and foster.
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            To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.
                                                  --Dryden.
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            Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
                                                  --Everett.
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   3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;
      -- sometimes followed by up.
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            But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.
                                                  --Bp. Burnet.
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            His farm may not remove his children too far from
            him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke.
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   4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to
      produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
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            Lest the place
            And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton.
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   5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond
      breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
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   6. To raise, as any kind of stock.
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   7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.]
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            Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
                                                  --Locke.
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   Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
        bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
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Breed \Breed\, v. i.
   1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
      itself; to be pregnant.
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            That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
                                                  viii. 17.
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            The mother had never bred before.     --Carpenter.
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            Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
            Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to
      grow, as young before birth.
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   3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
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            Heavens rain grace
            On that which breeds between them.    --Shak.
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   4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
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            The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
                                                  --Gardner.
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   {To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock
      that are closely related.
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Breed \Breed\, n.
   1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),
      perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
      inheritance.
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            Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
                                                  --Shak.
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            Greyhounds of the best breed.         --Carpenter.
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   2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
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            Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --Shak.
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            This courtesy is not of the right breed. --Shak.
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   3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
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   Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
         or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
         men.
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261 Moby Thesaurus words for "breed":
      accrue, accumulate, advance, affiliation, animal kingdom,
      apparentation, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, author,
      balloon, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child,
      bear, beget, birth, bloat, blood, bloodline, boom, branch, brand,
      break, break in, breed true, bring about, bring forth,
      bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up,
      broaden, brood, call into being, carry, carry young, cast, cause,
      character, children, clan, class, coin, color, common ancestry,
      conceive, concoct, condition, consanguinity, contrive, cook up,
      copulate, cover, create, crescendo, crossbreed, cultivate, culture,
      deme, denomination, derivation, descendants, descent, description,
      design, designation, develop, devise, direct line, discipline,
      discover, distaff side, do, dream up, drill, effect, effectuate,
      engender, establish, evolve, exercise, extraction, fabricate,
      family, farm, father, fatten, feather, feed, female line, fetch up,
      filiation, fit, folk, form, foster, found, frame, fruit, gain,
      gain strength, generate, genre, gens, genus, gestate, get,
      get ahead, get up, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to,
      give origin to, give rise to, go up, grain, grandchildren,
      great-grandchildren, groom, grow, hatch, heirs,
      hostages to fortune, house, house-train, housebreak, ilk, improve,
      improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, increase, incubate, induce,
      inheritors, institute, intensify, invent, issue, keep, kidney,
      kids, kin, kind, label, lick into shape, line, line of descent,
      lineage, little ones, lot, make, make do with, make love, make up,
      male line, manner, mark, matriclan, mature, mint, mold, mother,
      mount, multiply, muster up, nation, nature, new generation, number,
      nurse, nurture, occasion, offspring, order, originate, outbreed,
      patriclan, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, plan,
      plant kingdom, posterity, practice, prepare, procreate, produce,
      progenerate, progeny, proliferate, propagate, put in tune,
      put to school, race, raise, ranch, ready, realize, rear, rehearse,
      reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, rising generation, run, run up,
      seed, send to school, sept, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up,
      shape, shoot up, side, sire, sit, snowball, sons, sort, spawn,
      spear side, species, spindle side, spread, stamp, stem, stirps,
      stock, strain, strengthen, strike out, stripe, style, succession,
      swell, sword side, take in hand, the like of, the likes of,
      think out, think up, totem, train, treasures, tribe, type, variety,
      wax, widen, work, work up, younglings, youngsters