breeder (breder)

1. One who or that which breeds, procreates, or produces young: used especially of the female. You love the breeder better than the male. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., il L 2. One who educates or rears; figuratively, that which rears. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders ... of the worthiest men. Ascham, The Scholemaster. 3. One who or that which produces, causes, or brings about: as, he was a breeder of di ensions. Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. Shak ., T. G. of V., iii. 1. 4. One who procures the birth of young; one who raises a particular breed, as of animals; technically, in herd and stud-books, the owner of the dam at the time of the birth of the animal recorded. - 5t. Same as bred -sore. breeding (brē'ding), n. [Verbal n. of breed, t.] 1. The act of generating or producing.-2. The rearing of cattle or live stock of any kind, particularly by mingling or cro ing one strain breeding of a species or variety with another, with a view to improve the breed. See cro -breeding and in - and - in.-3. Upbringing; nurture; education; instruction. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak., All's Well, ii. 3. 4. Deportment or behavior in social life; manners, especially good manners: as, good breed ing (politene ); a man of no breeding (that is, a very ill-bred man). As men of breeding , sometimes men of wit, T' avoid great errors, must the le commit. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 259. In society his good breeding and vivacity made him always welcome. Macaulay , Dramatists of the Restoration. 51. Descent; extraction. Honest gentleman, I know not your breeding. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 3. Breeding in the line, breeding from animals of the same variety, but of different parentage. =Syn. 1. Generation, production.-2. Raising.-3. Training, discipline. breeding-cage (brē'ding-kāj), n. 1. A contrivance used by entomologists for rearing insects in captivity, as a box of wire netting, a jar covered with cloth, or any similar arrangement.-2. A large cage, with a box, pan, or compartment for a nest, in which a pair of birds are placed for breeding in captivity. breeding-pen (brē'ding-pen), п. inclosure, or a yard with the nece ary house for shelter, in which animals or poultry are confined for the purpose of producing purebred stock.-2. At exhibitions of poultry, a certain number of females, commonly four, but sometimes five, shown, together with a male, in competition for a prize. 1. A pen or