BPage 264
- English Word Breeching Definition of Breech
- English Word Breeching Definition A whipping on the breech, or the act of whipping on the breech.
- English Word Breeching Definition That part of a harness which passes round the breech of a horse, enabling him to hold back a vehicle.
- English Word Breeching Definition 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.
- English Word Breeching Definition The sheet iron casing at the end of boilers to convey the smoke from the flues to the smokestack.
- English Word Breechloader Definition A firearm which receives its load at the breech.
- English Word Breed Definition To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
- English Word Breed Definition To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
- English Word Breed Definition To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
- English Word Breed Definition To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
- English Word Breed Definition To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
- English Word Breed Definition To raise, as any kind of stock.
- English Word Breed Definition To produce or obtain by any natural process.
- English Word Breed Definition To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
- English Word Breed Definition To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
- English Word Breed Definition To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
- English Word Breed Definition To raise a breed; to get progeny.
- English Word Breed Definition A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
- English Word Breed Definition Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
- English Word Breed Definition A number produced at once; a brood.
- English Word Breedbate Definition One who breeds or originates quarrels.
- English Word Breede Definition Breadth.
- English Word Breeder Definition One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.
- English Word Breeder Definition A cause.
- English Word Breeding Definition of Breed
- English Word Breeding Definition The act or process of generating or bearing.
- English Word Breeding Definition The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
- English Word Breeding Definition Nurture; education; formation of manners.
- English Word Breeding Definition 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.
- English Word Breeding Definition Descent; pedigree; extraction.