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