Post by Allison Allen on Oct 18, 2003 8:27:38 GMT -5
Webster's Definition of a Breeder (1913)
Definition: \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Breeding}. to nourish, cherish,
keep warm, from brood;
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. --Shak.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
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.
--Dryden.
Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
--Everett.
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.
--Bp. Burnet.
His farm may not remove his children too far from
him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke.
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. --Milton.
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.
--Locke.
Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
\Breed\, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
itself; to be pregnant.
That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
viii. 17.
The mother had never bred before. --Carpenter.
Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I
can not tell. I make it breed as fast. --Shak.
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. --Shak.
4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
--Gardner.
{To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock
that are closely related.
\Breed\, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),
perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
inheritance.
Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
--Shak.
Greyhounds of the best breed. --Carpenter.
2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --Shak.
This courtesy is not of the right breed. --Shak.
3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
men.
Definition: \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bred}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Breeding}. to nourish, cherish,
keep warm, from brood;
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. --Shak.
If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak.
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.
--Dryden.
Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.
--Everett.
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.
--Bp. Burnet.
His farm may not remove his children too far from
him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke.
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. --Milton.
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.
--Locke.
Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate;
bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
\Breed\, v. i.
1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
itself; to be pregnant.
That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
viii. 17.
The mother had never bred before. --Carpenter.
Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I
can not tell. I make it breed as fast. --Shak.
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. --Shak.
4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
--Gardner.
{To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock
that are closely related.
\Breed\, n.
1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants),
perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by
inheritance.
Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.
--Shak.
Greyhounds of the best breed. --Carpenter.
2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? --Shak.
This courtesy is not of the right breed. --Shak.
3. A number produced at once; a brood. [Obs.]
Note: Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species
or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to
men.