(1):
(v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
(2):
(n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
(3):
(v. i.) To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
(4):
(v. t.) To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
(5):
(v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
(6):
(v. t.) To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; - sometimes followed by up.
(7):
(v. t.) To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
(8):
(v. i.) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
(9):
(v. t.) To raise, as any kind of stock.
(10):
(v. t.) To produce or obtain by any natural process.
(11):
(v. i.) To raise a breed; to get progeny.
(12):
(n.) Class; sort; kind; - of men, things, or qualities.
(13):
(n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
(14):
(v. i.) To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.