bred

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Bred out, degenerated. "The strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey." --Shak.

Bred to arms. See under Arms.

Well bred. (a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. "A gentleman well bred and of good name." --Shak. [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] (b) Well brought up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite. [1913 Webster] Brede

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]