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- noun Plural form of
breede . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
breede .
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Examples
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Hello, am starting to breed rabbits and my main breedes are lops and I was wondering if you had any for sale or want any?
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The sea adioyning, breedes a certaine beast, which they call the Mors, which seeketh his foode vpon the rockes, climing vp with the helpe of his teeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And in a noble Prince nothing is more decent and welbeseeming his greatnesse than to spare foule speeches, for that breedes hatred, and to let none humble suiters depart out of their presence (as neere as may be) miscontented.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Despaire breedes not (quoth he) where faith is staid.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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Be comforted my Girles, your hopes stand faire, vertue breedes gentrie, she makes the best heire. both daugh.
Sir Thomas More Anonymous 1590
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The sea adioyning, breedes a certaine beast, which they call the Mors, which seeketh his foode vpon the rockes, climing vp with the helpe of his teeth.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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And in a noble Prince nothing is more decent and welbeseeming his greatnesse than to spare foule speeches, for that breedes hatred, and to let none humble suiters depart out of their presence (as neere as may be) miscontented.
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[(Thy) 28.7 (father breedes me g) 8.7 (r) 1.7 (eat annoy) 28.7 (;)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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6 If then it find not helpe, and breedes despaire.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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469: Adoption striues with nature, and choise breedes
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