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Breeding   /brˈidɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Breeding  n.  
1.
The act or process of generating or bearing.
2.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
3.
Nurture; education; formation of manners. "She had her breeding at my father's charge."
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. "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."
5.
Descent; pedigree; extraction. (Obs.) "Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding."
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.
Synonyms: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education.


verb
Breed  v. t.  (past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)  
1.
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. "Yet every mother breeds not sons alike." "If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog."
2.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. "To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed." "Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness."
3.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up. "But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant." "His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in."
4.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. "Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment."
5.
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
6.
To raise, as any kind of stock.
7.
To produce or obtain by any natural process. (Obs.) "Children would breed their teeth with less danger."
Synonyms: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.


Breed  v. i.  (past & past part. bred; pres. part. breeding)  
1.
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. "That they breed abundantly in the earth." "The mother had never bred before." "Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast."
2.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
3.
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. "Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them."
4.
To raise a breed; to get progeny. "The kind of animal which you wish to breed from."
To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.





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"Breeding" Quotes from Famous Books



... all," insisted Dorothy. "It is not money but good breeding. There are plenty of poor persons who are just as polished as you call it. Father often told us about a family he visited when he was abroad. They were so poor in clothes—pathetically shabby, and yet they went in the very best society. Father used to make us laugh by his funny ...
— Dorothy Dale • Margaret Penrose
... court, described by Castiglione, may be said to have set the model of good breeding to all Europe, began life under the happiest auspices. From his tutor Odasio of Padua we hear that even in boyhood he cared only for study and for manly sports. His memory was so retentive that he could repeat whole treatises ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) • John Addington Symonds
... handsome eyes rested on the splashes. She said, after a moment's thought, that they looked "rather gay." She said she thought the eternal black and white of men's evening clothes was "so very dreary." She did her best.... Lady Thisbe Crowborough did her best, too, I suppose; but breeding isn't proof against all possible shocks: she visibly started at sight of me and my Z. I explained that I had cut myself shaving. I said, with an attempt at lightness, that shy men ought always to cut themselves shaving: it made such a good conversational opening. "But surely," she ...
— Seven Men • Max Beerbohm
... young man was born in Yorkshire, of a tolerable family, who had been sufficiently careful in having him instructed in whatever was necessary for a person of his condition, breeding him up to all works of husbandry in general, and also qualifying him in every respect for a gentleman's service; in one of which capacities they were in hopes he would not find it difficult to get his bread. He lived with several persons in the country with unspotted reputation, ...
— Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences • Arthur L. Hayward
... (1) Production: A. Agriculture and stock-breeding. B. Exploitation of minerals. (2) Transformation, Transport and industries:[190] technical processes, division of labour, means of communication. (3) Commerce: exchange and sale, credit. (4) Distribution: system ...
— Introduction to the Study of History • Charles V. Langlois


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