Definition of breast

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Breast (n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill..

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Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..
Breastbone :: Breastbone (n.) The bone of the breast; the sternum.
Breast-deep :: Breast-deep (a.) Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.
Mantel :: Mantel (n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports..
Breasted :: Breasted (a.) Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat..
Ablactation :: Ablactation (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam..
Mammillary :: Mammillary (a.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances..
Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to swell or rise, as the breast or bosom..
Sapphire :: Sapphire (n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue..
Thunderbird :: Thunderbird (n.) An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher..
Chitterling :: Chitterling (n.) The frill to the breast of a shirt, which when ironed out resembled the small entrails. See Chitterlings..
Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century..
Heave :: Heave (n.) An upward motion; a rising; a swell or distention, as of the breast in difficult breathing, of the waves, of the earth in an earthquake, and the like..
Mastodyny :: Mastodyny (n.) Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia..
Marlin :: Marlin (n.) The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).
Suckle :: Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
Apply :: Apply (v. t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body..
Nuthatch :: Nuthatch (n.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American..
Breastplate :: Breastplate (n.) A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
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