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.