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breed   (brēd)   
v.   bred (brěd), breed·ing, breeds

v.   tr.
  1. To produce (offspring); give birth to or hatch.
  2. To bring about; engender: "Admission of guilt tends to breed public sympathy" (Jonathan Alter).
    1. To cause to reproduce, especially by controlled mating and selection: breed cattle.
    2. To develop new or improved strains in (organisms), chiefly through controlled mating and selection of offspring for desirable traits.
    3. To inseminate or impregnate; mate with.
  4. To rear or train; bring up: a writer who was bred in a seafaring culture.
  5. To be the place of origin of: Austria breeds great skiers.
  6. To produce (fissionable material) in a breeder reactor.
v.   intr.
  1. To produce offspring.
  2. To copulate; mate.
  3. To originate and develop: Mischief breeds in bored minds.
n.  
  1. A group of organisms having common ancestors and certain distinguishable characteristics, especially a group within a species developed by artificial selection and maintained by controlled propagation.
  2. A kind; a sort: a new breed of politician; a new breed of computer.
  3. Offensive A person of mixed racial descent; a half-breed.

[Middle English breden, from Old English brēdan; see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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