English English Dictionary

A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.

Trousers; pantaloons.

of Breech

A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.

That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.

A strong rope rove through the cascabel of a cannon and secured to ringbolts in the ship's side, to limit the recoil of the gun when it is discharged.

The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.

A firearm which receives its load at the breech.

Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.

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

To raise a breed; to get progeny.

To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

To produce or obtain by any natural process.

To raise, as any kind of stock.

To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.

A number produced at once; a brood.

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.