'Bred' definitions:
Definition of 'Bred'
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- Bred \Bred\, imp. & p. p. of Breed. [1913 Webster]
- Bred out, degenerated. "The strain of man's bred out into baboon and monkey." --Shak.
- Bred to arms. See under Arms.
- Well bred. (a) Of a good family; having a good pedigree. "A gentleman well bred and of good name." --Shak. [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] (b) Well brought up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite. [1913 Webster] Brede
Definition of 'Bred'
From: GCIDE
- Breed \Breed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bred; p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding.] [OE. breden, AS. br[=e]dan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from br[=o]d brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. br["u]ten. See Brood.]
- 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [1913 Webster]
- Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [1913 Webster]
- To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. --Everett. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [1913 Webster]
- But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
- His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [1913 Webster]
- Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Children would breed their teeth with less danger. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [1913 Webster]