breed

1. v. t. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Source: opted

2. v. t. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. Source: opted

3. v. t. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. Source: opted

4. v. t. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. Source: opted

5. v. t. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. Source: opted

6. v. t. To raise, as any kind of stock. Source: opted

7. v. t. To produce or obtain by any natural process. Source: opted

8. v. i. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. Source: opted

9. v. i. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. Source: opted

10. v. i. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. Source: opted

11. v. i. To raise a breed; to get progeny. Source: opted

12. n. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. Source: opted

13. n. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/things">things, or qualities. Source: opted

14. n. A number produced at once; a brood. Source: opted

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