Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To breed up; nurse; train up. Holinshed, Hist. of Scotland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To rear, or bring up; to nurse.
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Examples
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And perfect virgin pure, with her breasts shall upbreed
In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Various 1902
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