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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Breeding}.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See {Brood}.] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [1913 Webster] Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak. [1913 Webster] If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [1913 Webster] To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. --Everett. [1913 Webster] 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [1913 Webster] But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [1913 Webster] Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [1913 Webster] 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [1913 Webster] 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Children would breed their teeth with less danger. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Breeding \Breed"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. [1913 Webster] 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. [1913 Webster] 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. [1913 Webster] She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. --Hume. [1913 Webster] 5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak. [1913 Webster] {Close breeding}, {In and in breeding}, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. {Cross breeding}, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. {Good breeding}, politeness; genteel deportment. [1913 Webster] Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See {Education}. [1913 Webster] Breeze From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: breeding adj 1: producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes" n 1: elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression [syn: {breeding}, {genteelness}, {gentility}] 2: the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior); "a woman of breeding and refinement" [syn: {education}, {training}, {breeding}] 3: helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community; "they debated whether nature or nurture was more important" [syn: {breeding}, {bringing up}, {fostering}, {fosterage}, {nurture}, {raising}, {rearing}, {upbringing}] 4: the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization 5: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring [syn: {reproduction}, {procreation}, {breeding}, {facts of life}]