Noun
a lineage or race of people

Noun
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"

Noun
a special lineage; "a breed of Americans"

Noun
half-caste offspring of parents of different races (especially of white and Indian parents)

Verb
have young (animals); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"

Verb
of plants or animals; "She breeds dogs"

Verb
copulate with a female, used especially of horses; "The horse covers the mare"

Verb
call forth

v. t.
To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

v. t.
To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

v. t.
To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.

v. t.
To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.

v. t.
To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

v. t.
To raise, as any kind of stock.

v. t.
To produce or obtain by any natural process.

v. i.
To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

v. i.
To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.

v. i.
To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

v. i.
To raise a breed; to get progeny.

n.
A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.

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

n.
A number produced at once; a brood.

Breed

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike.

If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog.

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed.

Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness.

But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant.

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in.

Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment.

Children would breed their teeth with less danger.

Breed

That they breed abundantly in the earth.

The mother had never bred before.

Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.

Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between them.

The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.

Breed

Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed.

Greyhounds of the best breed.

Are these the breed of wits so wondered at?

This courtesy is not of the right breed.

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.

A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.