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Word Meanings - OVERBREED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To breed to excess.

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  • BREVIARY
    summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • BREADEN
    Made of bread.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • BREADBASKET
    The stomach. S. Foote.
  • BREWER
    One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
  • BREADFRUIT
    The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
  • BREQUET CHAIN
    A watch-guard.
  • BRETFUL
    Brimful. Chaucer.
  • BRENNAGE
    A tribute which tenants paid to their lord, in lieu of bran, which they were obliged to furnish for his hounds.
  • BREVITY
    1. Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life. 2. Contraction into few words; conciseness. Brevity is the soul of wit. Shak. This argument is stated by St. John with his usual elegant brevity and simplicity.
  • BREASTWHEEL
    A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
  • BREVIATE
    1. A short compend; a summary; a brief statement. I omit in this breviate to rehearse. Hakluyt. The same little breviates of infidelity have . . . been published and dispersed with great activity. Bp. Porteus. 2. A lawyer's brief. Hudibras.
  • BREVIROSTRAL; BREVIROSTRATE
    Short-billed; having a short beak.
  • BREECH-LOADING
    Receiving the charge at the breech instead of at the muzzle.
  • BREADTHWISE
    In the direction of the breadth.
  • BRETZEL
    See PRETZEL
  • BREWHOUSE
    A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.
  • BREADTHLESS
    Without breadth.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
  • LIBRETTO
    A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • SABRE
    See SABER
  • SPANKING BREEZE
    a strong breeze.
  • TIMBREL
    A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
  • SINGLE-BREASTED
    Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
  • BROKEN BREAST
    Abscess of the mammary gland.
  • BARLEY-BREE
    Liquor made from barley; strong ale. Burns.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
    Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
  • HOME-BRED
    1. Bred at home; domestic; not foreign. " Home-bred mischief." Milton. Benignity and home-bred sense. Wordsworth. 2. Not polished; rude; uncultivated. Only to me home-bred youths belong. Dryden.

 

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