资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Breed \Breed\, v. i.
   1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply
      itself; to be pregnant.

            That they breed abundantly in the earth. --Gen.
                                                  viii. 17.

            The mother had never bred before.     --Carpenter.

            Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams? Shy. I
            can not tell. I make it breed as fast. --Shak.

   2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to
      grow, as young before birth.

   3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.

            Heavens rain grace On that which breeds between
            them.                                 --Shak.

   4. To raise a breed; to get progeny.

            The kind of animal which you wish to breed from.
                                                  --Gardner.

   {To breed in and in}, to breed from animals of the same stock
      that are closely related.