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