Found 2 items, similar to bred.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: bred breed n 1: a special lineage; “a breed of Americans” 2: a special variety of domesticated animals within a species; “he experimented on a particular breed of white rats”; “he created a new strain of sheep” [syn: strain, stock] 3: half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents) [syn: half-breed] 4: a lineage or race of people [syn: strain] v 1: call forth [syn: engender, spawn] 2: copulate with a female, used especially of horses; “The horse covers the mare” [syn: cover] 3: of plants or animals; “She breeds dogs” 4: have young (animals); “pandas rarely breed in captivity” [syn: multiply] [also: bred] bred See breed
English → English (gcide) Definition: Bred Bred \Bred\, imp. & p. p. of Breed. [1913 Webster] 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] Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See Brood.] 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]