Definition of breeding

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Breeding (n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society..

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Breeding :: Breeding (n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding..
Breeding :: Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
Incivility :: Incivility (n.) Any act of rudeness or ill breeding.
Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..
Pregnant :: Pregnant (a.) Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth..
Stallmen :: Stallion (n.) A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
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..
Redfin :: Redfin (n.) A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley..
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Fashion :: Fashion (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion..
Studding :: Studdery (n.) A stud, or collection of breeding horses and mares; also, a place for keeping a stud..
Crossing :: Crossing (v. t.) The act of interbreeding; a mixing of breeds.
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..
True-bred :: True-bred (a.) Being of real breeding or education; as, a true-bred gentleman..
Cross :: Cross (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind..
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
Fellow :: Fellow (n.) A man without good breeding or worth; an ignoble or mean man.
Thoroughbred :: Thoroughbred (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like..
Dysgenesic :: Dysgenesic (a.) Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another..
Half-bred :: Half-bred (a.) Imperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
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