| Breed: English to English |
| Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood. |
| Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. |
| Breed (n.) Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. |
| Breed (v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. |
| Breed (v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. |
| Breed (v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. |
| Breed (v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny. |
| Breed (v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. |
| Breed (v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. |
| Breed (v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. |
| Breed (v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. |
| Breed (v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process. |
| Breed (v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock. |
| Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. |