Definition of breed

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Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..

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Hound :: Hound (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc..
Womb :: Womb (v. t.) To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret..
Water Spaniel :: Water spaniel () A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water..
Falconer :: Falconer (n.) A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.
Gentlefolks :: Gentlefolks (n. pl.) Persons of gentle or good family and breeding.
Breeder :: Breeder (n.) A cause.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock..
Spaniel :: Spaniel (n.) One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair and large drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and the tail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker..
Penguinery :: Penguinery (n.) A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins..
Shorthorn :: Shorthorn (a.) One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England..
Zebu :: Zebu (n.) A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff..
Crossbred :: Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
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..
Migrate :: Migrate (v. i.) To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds..
Etiquette :: Etiquette (n.) The forms required by good breeding, or prescribed by authority, to be observed in social or official life; observance of the proprieties of rank and occasion; conventional decorum; ceremonial code of polite society..
Breed :: Breed (v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth..
In And An :: In and an (a. & adv.) Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
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