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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
2. v. To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy” ( Jonathan Alter).
3. v. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
4. v. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
5. v. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
6. v. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
7. v. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
8. v. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.
9. v. To produce offspring.
10. v. To copulate; mate.
11. v. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
12. n. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
13. n. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
14. n. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.
15. idiom. a scab Regional To stir up trouble for oneself.
16. idiom. breed up a storm New England To become cloudy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To procreate; beget; engender; hatch.
2. To produce within or upon the body by development or organic process.
3. To cause; occasion; produce; originate.
4. To produce; be the native place of: as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds a race of stout men.
5. To bring up; nurse and foster; take care of during the period of growth: as, born and bred.
6. To form by education; train: as, to breed a son to an occupation; a man bred at a university: commonly with up.
7. To procure by the mating of parents, and rear for use: as, to breed canaries; to breed cattle for the market.
8. Synonyms To generate.
9. To nourish, nurture.
10. To educate, school, discipline.
11. To raise.
12. To beget or bear offspring; produce young; be fruitful: used figuratively of increase generally.
13. To have birth; be produced; arise; grow; develop: as, maggots breed readily in carrion.
14. To procure the birth of young: with from: as, to breed from a mare of good stock.
15. To be pregnant.
16. n. A race or progeny from the same parents or stock; especially, a race of men or other animals having an alliance by nativity and some distinctive qualities in common, which are transmitted by heredity; hence, family; extraction: as, a breed of men in a particular country; horses or sheep of good breed.
17. n. Hence Sort; kind: in a general sense.
18. n. A number produced at once; a hatch; a brood: as,“above an hundred at a breed,”
19. n. Increase of any sort, especially interest on money; usury.
20. n. Breeding.

Wiktionary

1. v. To sexually produce offspring.
2. v. Of animals, to mate.
3. v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
4. v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
5. v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
6. v. To make sure that one's young grow up to adulthood.
7. v. To yield or result in.
8. n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies eg. a breed of tulip, a breed of animal.
9. n. A race or lineage.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
2. v. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
3. v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up.
4. v. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce.
5. v. To give birth to; to be the native place of.
6. v. To raise, as any kind of stock.
7. v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
8. v. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
9. v. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
10. v. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
11. v. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
12. n. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
13. n. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities.
14. n. A number produced at once; a brood.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a special variety of domesticated animals within a species
2. v. copulate with a female, used especially of horses
3. v. cause to procreate (animals)
4. v. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
5. n. a special type
6. v. call forth