Breech sight

( Mil.) An instrument used for pointing a fire-arm. Breed, ( bred,) v. a. ( imp. and pp. BRED.) [A.S. bred an; brædan.] To generate; to produce; to beget; to pro create. "None fiercer in Numidia bred, With Carthage were in triumph led."-Roscommon. -To cherish; to nourish; to foster; to bring up. " Bred up in grief, can pleasure be our theme?"-Prior. -To educate; to train; to form by education; as, a well bred person. "To breed up the son to common sense, Is evermore the parent's least expense."-Dryden. -To occasion; to cause; to produce; to engender; as, to breed suspicion. "How use doth breed a habit in a man!"-Shaks. -To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, breeding ponds. "Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed."-Shaks. -.i. To produce offspring; to be with young. "Lucina, it seems, was breeding ."-Spectator. -To be produced, generated, or formed, as young breed in the matrix. "How could youth last, and love still breed, Had joys no date, and age no need?"-Raleigh. Breed'ings, in Kentucky , a post-office of Adair co. Breeds'ville, in Michigan , a P. O. of Van Buren co. Breese, in Illinois , a post-village of Greene co., 50 m. S.W. of Springfield. Breese, in Michigan, a village of Allegan co., on an arm of the Kalamazoo River. Breese/ville, in Illinois, a village of Jackson co., on the Mi i ippi River. Brees'port, in New York , a post-office of Chemung co. Breeze, n. [Sp. briza ; Fr. brise; Dan. bruser , to rush. See RUSH.] A wind that rushes on or rises suddenly; a shifting wind; a gentle gale; as, a strong breeze from the North. "The breeze springs up: the lately flapping sail Extends its arch before the growing gale." - Byron. -Metaphorically, a misunderstanding; an altercation; a quarrel. ( Brickmaking .) The larger refuse arising from pa ing cinders through a sieve; they are much employed by brickmakers for the purpose of calcining their bricks, and for mixture with the clay when it is too fat for ordinary purposes. -v. n. ( Naut .) To blow gently. Breeze'-fly, n. (Zool.) See ESTRIDA. Without a breeze; very calm. -To be produced; to have birth; as, salmon breed in yon Breeze-shaken, a. That is shaken or moved by a IMG:content-0746.png:[blocks in formation] "For when did friendship take A breed of barren metal of his friend?"-Shaks. Bree'de, a river of S. Africa, in Cape Colony. It rises in the Warm-Bokkeveld Mountain, and falls into the sea at Port Beaufort. It is a deep and large river, but a bar at its mouth much impedes navigation.