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breeding
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Word definitions for breeding in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breeding \Breed"ing\, n. The act or process of generating or bearing. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring; "the breeding population"; "retained a few bulls for breeding purposes"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Of, relating to or used for breeding. n. The process through which propagation, growth or development occurs. v (present participle of breed English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "hatching, incubation;" also "formation, development, growth," verbal noun from breed (v.). Meaning "good manners" is from 1590s.
Usage examples of breeding.
Eventually someone hit on the idea of breeding typhus in the labs and spraying it in an aerosol form from airplanes.
A gentleman of breeding would be perfectly able to understand that he should be apologizing instead of ranting and raving.
Rumour, however, was astir, and as I had powerful friends, so, too, I had the powerful enemies which envy must always be breeding for men in high places such as mine.
CHAPTER LVI Pursuit Impassive, as behoves its high breeding, the Dedlock town house stares at the other houses in the street of dismal grandeur and gives no outward sign of anything going wrong within.
CHAPTER LVIII A Wintry Day and Night Still impassive, as behoves its breeding, the Dedlock town house carries itself as usual towards the street of dismal grandeur.
I can think of to keep monotony and boredom, the breeding ground of cafard, from setting in.
He may be able to love violently, but he will never have that fine flower of breeding in his gallantry which distinguished Lauzun, Adhemar, Coigny, and so many others!
He had often watched the white-browed coucals coming in on a long gliding flight to take cover here amongst the reeds in the breeding season.
Along with the recently departed Darrel Feight--William Tyson, Jennifer Gould, Elizabeth Dao, and Warren Laroux shared a devotion to rose breeding.
No introductions took place, and I read the tact of the witty hunchback in the omission, but as all the guests were men used to the manners of the court, that neglect of etiquette did not prevent them from paying every honour to my lovely friend, who received their compliments with that ease and good breeding which are known only in France, and even there only in the highest society, with the exception, however, of a few French provinces in which the nobility, wrongly called good society, shew rather too openly the haughtiness which is characteristic of that class.
Up there, somewhere far away, lay the Dobro breeding camps and the other human prisoners.
Goldsworthy IS a pretty big pill to swallow--to a chap like him, always so faddy about breeding and manners, and that sort of thing.
They had missed the spectacular breeding colonies of the spring when the cliffs were white with nesting guillemots and razorbills and the puffin burrows honeycombed the turf, but there were other visitors now: the migrant goldcrests and fieldfares and buntings -and the seals, hundreds of them, returning to have their pups.
Ginnie, snuggling inside her padded jacket, gave carrots from her pocket to some of the mares in the first yard and walked me without stopping through the empty places, the second yard, the foaling yard, and past the breeding shed.
She had always worn her fragility like a beautiful orchid corsage, as if it were the badge of a true lady, a sign of breeding.