Breed

v. t.	1.	To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [imp. & p. p. Bred ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] 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. Children would breed their teeth with less danger. - Locke.
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.
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.

Noun	1.	breed - a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"
	2.	breed - 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" Synonyms: strain, stock
	3.	breed - half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) Synonyms: half-breed
	4.	breed - a lineage or race of people Synonyms: strain
Verb	1.	breed - call forth Synonyms: engender, spawn
	2.	breed - copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare" Synonyms: cover
	3.	breed - of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"
	4.	breed - have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity" Synonyms: multiply

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