Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
bread . - noun A simplified spelling of
bread . - noun Preterit and past participle of breed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
breed . - degenerated.
- See under
Arms . - [Obs., except as applied to domestic animals.] Well brought up, as shown in having good manners; cultivated; refined; polite.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
breed .
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Examples
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Let the progeny of these be bred to another _pure bred_ male of the same breed, but as distantly related to the first as may be.
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**poorz sum flavored kawfee an noms sum punkin bred, den sum zookanennee bred, den sum karotz bred* Yum!
lifeguard kitteh is on duty and - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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On the third day, Mr. Borba would match us against four cows that were bred from the same stock as full-grown fighting bulls.
Matador for a Day 2010
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Democrats are racist, gun toting, in bred trailer trash just like the liberal Democrats have been saying the Tea Party people are.
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Whisky drinking, racist, sister dating in bred morons rarley share vakues with many goawaymongers
Schneider: Majority in Kentucky say Obama doesn't share values 2008
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And before long the water has been so muddied that those who desire to discuss this factually and intelligently end up spending all their constructive time fighting straw men bred from the metastasizing erroneous narrative presented in the first place!!!
Think Progress » Key Fact In National Review’s Global Warming Article Is ‘Completely Wrong’ 2006
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And before long the water has been so muddied that those who desire to discuss this factually and intelligently end up spending all their constructive time fighting straw men bred from the metastasizing erroneous narrative presented in the first place!!!
Think Progress » Key Fact In National Review’s Global Warming Article Is ‘Completely Wrong’ 2006
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He was the typical "shirker" and "loafer," while other men worked; the parasite bred from the sweat of the poor; the soft, effeminate creature who had never faced the facts of life and never would.
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Sixteen hundred residents to the acre they average in this part of the town, buzzing and humming like the unreckonable myriads insects bred from the fecund slime of a marsh.
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Because I was mountain bred, unallied to the noble and wealthy, shall he think to repay me by an empty name and station?
I.9 1826
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