Bible Dictionaries
Breeding

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.

(2):

(n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.

(3):

(n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

(4):

(n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.

(5):

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed

(6):

(n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Breeding'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/breeding.html. 1828.