Index of English words, starting with "br"

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

(1) - Breeder (n.) A cause.
(2) - Breeder (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc.

(1) - Breeding (n.) Descent; pedigree; extraction.
(2) - Breeding (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.
(3) - Breeding (n.) Nurture; education; formation of manners.
(4) - Breeding (n.) The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
(5) - Breeding (n.) The act or process of generating or bearing.
(6) - Breeding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breed

(1) - Breeze (v. i.) To blow gently.
(2) - Breeze (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
(3) - Breeze (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
(4) - Breeze (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
(5) - Breeze (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
(6) - Breeze (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly

(1) - Breezeless (a.) Motionless; destitute of breezes.