Definition of breed

"breed" in the noun sense

1. breed, strain, stock

a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

"he experimented on a particular breed of white rats"

"he created a new strain of sheep"

2. breed

a special type

"Google represents a new breed of entrepreneurs"

"breed" in the verb sense

1. engender, breed, spawn

call forth

2. breed, cover

copulate with a female, used especially of horses

"The horse covers the mare"

3. breed

cause to procreate (animals

"She breeds dogs"

4. breed, multiply

have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms

"pandas rarely breed in captivity"

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Quotations for breed

True jests breed bad blood. [ Proverb ]

Petty laws breed great crimes. [ Ouida ]

Breed is stronger than pasture. [ George Eliot ]

Riches breed care, poverty is safe. [ Danish Proverb ]

Riches, rightly used, breed delight. [ Plautus ]

How use doth breed a habit in a man! [ William Shakespeare ]

All that breed in the mud are not Eels. [ Proverb ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

A fair wife and a frontier castle breed quarrels. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It must be a wily mouse that can breed in a cat's ear. [ Proverb ]

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. [ Seneca ]

We cannot be kind to each other here for an hour;
We whisper, and hint, and chuckle, and grin at a brother's shame;
However we brave it out, we men are a little breed. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother. [ William Shakespeare ]

To breed up the son to commonsense is evermore the parent's least expense. [ Dryden ]

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. [ Hazlitt ]

High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what? To breed new wants, and beggar us the more,
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng. [ Young ]

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. [ William Penn ]

Be not too familiar with thy servants; at first it may beget love, but in the end it will breed contempt. [ Fuller ]

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution. [ Charles Dickens ]

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science? [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

breed in Scrabble®

The word breed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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breed in Words With Friends™

The word breed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters breed:

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Word Growth involving breed

Shorter words in breed

re reed

Longer words containing breed

breeder breeders crossbreeders

breeder breeders inbreeders

breeder breeders nonbreeders

breeder breeders stockbreeders

breeder crossbreeder crossbreeders

breeder inbreeder inbreeders

breeder nonbreeder nonbreeders

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breeding nonbreeding

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outbreed outbreeding outbreedings

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