Definition of breed

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Breed (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities..

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Half-breed :: Half-breed (a.) Half-blooded.
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..
Gentlewoman :: Gentlewoman (n.) A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar.
Boud :: Boud (n.) A weevil; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc..
Struggled :: Strude (n.) A stock of breeding mares.
Devon :: Devon (n.) One of a breed of hardy cattle originating in the country of Devon, England. Those of pure blood have a deep red color. The small, longhorned variety, called North Devons, is distinguished by the superiority of its working oxen..
Kingbird :: Kingbird (n.) A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles, especially when they approach its nest in the breeding season. It is a typical tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the head and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show
Crossbred :: Crossbred (a.) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
Stocker :: Stockdove (n.) A common European wild pigeon (Columba aenas), so called because at one time believed to be the stock of the domestic pigeon, or, according to some, from its breeding in the stocks, or trunks, of trees..
Breeder :: Breeder (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc..
Subbronchial :: Subbreed (n.) A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.
Hereford :: Hereford (n.) One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent..
Stop :: Stop (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds..
Interbreed :: Interbreed (v. t. & i.) To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
Ladino :: Ladino (n.) One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
Bloodhound :: Bloodhound (n.) A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff..
In And An :: In and an (a. & adv.) Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.
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..
Half-breed :: Half-breed (n.) A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race..
Vermination :: Vermination (n.) The generation or breeding of vermin.
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