Definition of breed

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Breed (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease..

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Alderney :: 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..
Hylodes :: Hylodes (n.) The piping frog (Hyla Pickeringii), a small American tree frog, which in early spring, while breeding in swamps and ditches, sings with high, shrill, but musical, notes..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle..
Indecorous :: Indecorous (a.) Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct..
Grade :: Grade (v. t.) To cross with some better breed; to improve the blood of.
Gentlewoman :: Gentlewoman (n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
Conceive :: Conceive (v. i.) To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant.
Breeder :: Breeder (n.) A cause.
Waybung :: Waybung (n.) An Australian insessorial bird (Corcorax melanorhamphus) noted for the curious actions of the male during the breeding season. It is black with a white patch on each wing.
Turnspit :: Turnspit (n.) A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
Fieldfare :: Fieldfare (n.) a small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
Deloul :: Deloul (n.) A special breed of the dromedary used for rapid traveling; the swift camel; -- called also herire, and maharik..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock..
Bred :: Bred () imp. & p. p. of Breed.
Greyhound :: Greyhound (n.) A slender, graceful breed of dogs, remarkable for keen sight and swiftness. It is one of the oldest varieties known, and is figured on the Egyptian monuments..
Generation :: Generation (n.) Race; kind; family; breed; stock.
Breed :: Breed (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..
Boud :: Boud (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc..
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