English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Breed (n.)

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

Breed (n.)

A number produced at once; a brood.

Breedbate (n.)

One who breeds or originates quarrels.

Breede (n.)

Breadth.

Breeder (n.)

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.

Breeder (n.)

A cause.

Breeding (p. pr. & vb. n.)

of Breed

Breeding (n.)

The act or process of generating or bearing.

Breeding (n.)

Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Breeding (n.)

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

Breeding (n.)

Nurture; education; formation of manners.

Breeding (n.)

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.

Breeze (n.)

Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.

Breeze (n.)

An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.

Breeze (n.)

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.

Breeze (n.)

Alt. of Breeze fly

Breeze (v. i.)

To blow gently.

Breeze (n.)

Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

Breeze fly (n.)

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.

Breezeless (a.)

Motionless; destitute of breezes.