[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

breed \breed\, v. t. imp.  p. p. bred; p. pr.  vb. n.
   breeding. oe. breden, as. br=edan to nourish, cherish,
   keep warm, from br=od brood; akin to d. broeden to brood,
   ohg. bruoten, g. br"uten. see brood.
   1. to produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to
      procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
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            yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --shak.
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            if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --shak.
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   2. to take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth;
      to bring up; to nurse and foster.
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            to bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.
                                                  --dryden.
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            born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
                                                  --everett.
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   3. to educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train;
      -- sometimes followed by up.
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            but no care was taken to breed him a protestant.
                                                  --bp. burnet.
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            his farm may not remove his children too far from
            him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --locke.
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   4. to engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to
      produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
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            lest the place
            and my quaint habits breed astonishment. --milton.
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   5. to give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond
      breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
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   6. to raise, as any kind of stock.
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   7. to produce or obtain by any natural process. obs.
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            children would breed their teeth with less danger.
                                                  --locke.
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   syn: to engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
        bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
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see also:
bred breeding brood 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

breed \breed\, v. i.
   1. to bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
      itself; to be pregnant.
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            that they breed abundantly in the earth. --gen.
                                                  viii. 17.
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            the mother had never bred before.     --carpenter.
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            ant. is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
            shy. i can not tell. i make it breed as fast.
                                                  --shak.
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   2. to be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to
      grow, as young before birth.
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   3. to have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
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            heavens rain grace
            on that which breeds between them.    --shak.
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   4. to raise a breed; to get progeny.
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            the kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
                                                  --gardner.
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   to breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock
      that are closely related.
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see also:
to breed in and in 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

breed \breed\, n.
   1. a race or variety of men or other animals or of plants,
      perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
      inheritance.
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            twice fifteen thousand hearts of england's breed.
                                                  --shak.
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            greyhounds of the best breed.         --carpenter.
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   2. class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
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            are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --shak.
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            this courtesy is not of the right breed. --shak.
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   3. a number produced at once; a brood. obs.
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   note: breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
         or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
         men.
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[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

breed
     n 1: a special lineage; "a breed of americans"
     2: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species;
        "he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"; "he
        created a new strain of sheep" syn: strain, stock
     3: half-caste offspring of parents of different races
        especially of white and indian parents syn: half-breed
     4: a lineage or race of people syn: strain
     v 1: call forth syn: engender, spawn
     2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "the
        horse covers the mare" syn: cover
     3: of plants or animals; "she breeds dogs"
     4: have young animals; "pandas rarely breed in captivity"
        syn: multiply
     also: bred
see also:
strain stock half-breed engender spawn cover 
multiply bred 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

261 moby thesaurus words for "breed":
   accrue, accumulate, advance, affiliation, animal kingdom,
   apparentation, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, author,
   balloon, be gravid, be knocked up, be pregnant, be with child,
   bear, beget, birth, bloat, blood, bloodline, boom, branch, brand,
   break, break in, breed true, bring about, bring forth,
   bring into being, bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up,
   broaden, brood, call into being, carry, carry young, cast, cause,
   character, children, clan, class, coin, color, common ancestry,
   conceive, concoct, condition, consanguinity, contrive, cook up,
   copulate, cover, create, crescendo, crossbreed, cultivate, culture,
   deme, denomination, derivation, descendants, descent, description,
   design, designation, develop, devise, direct line, discipline,
   discover, distaff side, do, dream up, drill, effect, effectuate,
   engender, establish, evolve, exercise, extraction, fabricate,
   family, farm, father, fatten, feather, feed, female line, fetch up,
   filiation, fit, folk, form, foster, found, frame, fruit, gain,
   gain strength, generate, genre, gens, genus, gestate, get,
   get ahead, get up, give being to, give birth to, give occasion to,
   give origin to, give rise to, go up, grain, grandchildren,
   great-grandchildren, groom, grow, hatch, heirs,
   hostages to fortune, house, house-train, housebreak, ilk, improve,
   improvise, inaugurate, inbreed, increase, incubate, induce,
   inheritors, institute, intensify, invent, issue, keep, kidney,
   kids, kin, kind, label, lick into shape, line, line of descent,
   lineage, little ones, lot, make, make do with, make love, make up,
   male line, manner, mark, matriclan, mature, mint, mold, mother,
   mount, multiply, muster up, nation, nature, new generation, number,
   nurse, nurture, occasion, offspring, order, originate, outbreed,
   patriclan, people, persuasion, phratry, phyle, phylum, plan,
   plant kingdom, posterity, practice, prepare, procreate, produce,
   progenerate, progeny, proliferate, propagate, put in tune,
   put to school, race, raise, ranch, ready, realize, rear, rehearse,
   reproduce, reproduce in kind, rise, rising generation, run, run up,
   seed, send to school, sept, set, set afloat, set on foot, set up,
   shape, shoot up, side, sire, sit, snowball, sons, sort, spawn,
   spear side, species, spindle side, spread, stamp, stem, stirps,
   stock, strain, strengthen, strike out, stripe, style, succession,
   swell, sword side, take in hand, the like of, the likes of,
   think out, think up, totem, train, treasures, tribe, type, variety,
   wax, widen, work, work up, younglings, youngsters

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