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Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
A number produced at once; a brood.
One who breeds or originates quarrels.
Breadth.
One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
A cause.
of Breed
The act or process of generating or bearing.
Descent; pedigree; extraction.
The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
Alt. of Breeze fly
To blow gently.
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
Motionless; destitute of breezes.