Helen Fenton

Breech screw: Definition and part of speech

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Breech screw

  1. A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Breech sight: Definition and part of speech

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Breech sight

  1. A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sight, in taking aim.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Breeding: Definition and part of speech

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Breeding

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Breed
  2. n. The act or process of generating or bearing.
  3. n. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
  4. n. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
  5. n. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Breed: Definition and part of speech

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Breed

  1. n. A number produced at once; a brood.
  2. v. t. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
  3. v. t. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.
  4. v. t. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; — sometimes followed by up.
  5. v. t. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
  6. v. t. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
  7. v. t. To raise, as any kind of stock.
  8. v. t. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
  9. v. i. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
  10. v. i. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
  11. 1n. 1 A number produced at once; a brood.
  12. 1v. t. 1 To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Breeze: Definition and part of speech

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Breeze

  1. n. Alt. of Breeze fly
  2. n. A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
  3. n. An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
  4. n. Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
  5. n. Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Breeze fly: Definition and part of speech

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Breeze fly

  1. n. A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; — called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.