Word Meanings - STUD-HORSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A stallion, esp. one kept for breeding.

Related words: (words related to STUD-HORSE)

• BREEDING
  1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge.
• BREEDER
  1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. 2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak.
• BREEDBATE
  One who breeds or originates quarrels. "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.
• STALLION
  A male horse not castrated; a male horse kept for breeding.
• BREED
  brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brüten. See 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead
• INTERBREED
  To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
• CROSSBREED
  1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
• OVERBREED
  To breed to excess.
• UPBREED
  To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.
• HALF-BREED
  Half-blooded.
• IMBREED
  To generate within; to inbreed. Hakewill.
• BREDE; BREEDE
  Breadth. Chaucer.
• INBREED
  Etym: 1. To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton. 2. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i.
• SUBBREED
  A race or strain differing in certain characters from the parent breed; an incipient breed.