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Show BR 3. To take breath ; to reft He prefently followed the vittory fo hot upo th Scots tha he fuffere them no t breathe or gather themfelves together again Spenfer's State of Ireland "Three times they bredth'd, and three times di they drink +Upon agreement Shakéfpeare's Henry IV Reft, that gives all men life, gave him his death And too much breathing put him out of breath. Milton ‘When France had breath'd afterinteftine broils And peace and conqueft crown'd her foreign toils Rofconimon 4. To pafs as air Shall I not then be fifled in the vault To whofe foul mouth no healthfome air breathes in And there be ftrangled ere my Romeo comes 9% BREATHE Shakefpeare . a dy, and eje& or expire out of it They wifh to live Their pains and poverty defire to bear To view the light of heav'n, and Jreathe the vita air Dryden They here began to breathe a moft deliciouskind of ather, and faw all the fields about the Tatler covered with a kind of purple light 2 To inje& by breathing : with znzo He breathed into us the breath of life, a vita altive fpirit; whofe motions, he expeéts, fhoul Decay of Piety own the dignity of its original be belov'd I would be young, be handfome Dryden Could I but breathe myfelf into Adraftus 3. . To. expife ; to eje breathing b ‘with out She is called, by ancient authors, the tent mufe; and by Plutarch is compared to Caius the fon of Vulcan, who breathed out nothing bu Spectator Hame 4. To exercife ; to keep in breath "Thy greyhounds are as {wift as breathed ftags Shakefpeare 5. T infpire to mov breath " or actuat b They breathe the flute, or firike the vocal wire Prior 6. To exhale ; to fend out as breath His altar breathes Ambrofial odours, and ambrofial flow'rs I have tow'rd heav''n breath'd a fecret vow _'To live in pray'r and contemplation Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice 8. To give air or vent to Dryden's Virgil #. [ [from breathe. 1. One that breathes or lives She thows a body rather than a life A ftatue than a breathers Shakefps Ant. and Cleop I will chide no éreather in the world but myfelf Shakefpearc 2. One that ntters any thing No particular fcandal once can touch . But it confounds the breatber Shake[peare's Meafure for Meafure .&. Infpirer ; one that animates or infufe by infpiration The breather of alllife does now expire His milder father fummons him away Norris Bre"ATHING With Carthag When I was dry with rage and extreme toil Breathlefs, and faint, leaning upon my fword Came there a certain lord. Shakefpeare's Henry 1 Many fo ftrained themfelves in their race, tha Hayward they fell down breathlefs and dead Breathlefs and tir'd, is all my fary fpent Or does my glutted fpleen at length relent Dryden's Eneid Kneeling before this ruin of fweet life And breathing to this breathlefs excellenc The incenfe ofa vow, a holy vow Shakefpeare's King Fobn Yielding to the fentence, breathlefs tho And pale fhalt lie, as what thou burieft now. Prior BreD. particip. paf. [from To breed. Their malice was éred in them, and their cogi#ifdom, xii. ro tation would never be changed See Braip In a curious brede of needle-work, one colou falls away by fuch juft degrees, and another rife foinfenfibly, that we fee the variety, without bein able to diftinguifh the total vanithing of the on from the firft appearance of the other. Addifon [fuppofed from bpzcan part When the king's pardon was offered by a herauld, a lewd boy turned towards him his nake breech, and ufed words fuitable to that gefture Hayward The ftorks devour fnakes and other ferpents which when they begin to creep outat their breeches they will prefently clap them clofe to a wall, t 7./. [from breathe. 3. Afpiration ; fecret prayer While to high heav'n his pious breathings tnin'd Weeping he hop'dy and facrificing mouin'd, Prior 2. Breathing place ; vent Grew's Mufaum Thereat he roared for exceeding pain Ao Thht{, tc:{ have heard, great horrour would h‘ave Our own hearts we know, but we arf::zi'? what hope the rites and orders of our ahui-é-h hay bred in the hearts of others Hog What hust ill company, ‘and overmuch Iiher breedeth in youth Afchan's Sfboolmafitz Intemperance and luft breed infirmities and~dif eafes, which, being propagated, fpoil the ftrajn o Ti[latjm, a nation 4. To contrive ; tohatch to plot My fon Edgar! had he a hand to write thig a heart and brain to breed itin3 Shak, KingLear 5. To give birth to; to be the nativ place: fo, there are breeding ponds, an feeding ponds Mr. Harding and the worthieft divine Chrif tendom hath Jred for the fpace of fome hundred of years, were brought up together in the fame Who Hosker univerfity Hail, foreign wonder certain thefe rough fhades did never breed - Mily On ftate affairs, to guide the government Hear firft what Socrates of old has fai To the lov'd youth whom he at- Athens bred, Dryd To breed up thefon to common fenfe Is evermore the parent's leaft expences Dryd Fuv And left their pillagers, to rapine bred Without controul to ftrip and fpoil the deads Dryd His farm may not remove his children too fa from him, or the trade he breeds them up in, La.clm 7. To bring up to take care of fromin life Bred up in grief, can pleafure be our-theme Our endlefs anguifh does not nature claim Prior Reafon and forrow are to us the fame 7o BREED. w. 7 1. To bring young Lucina it feems, was breeding, as fhe did no thing but entertain the company with a difcourf upon the difficulty of reckonint g a day. Speffatir breech a gun BREECHES. n. /. [bpzc, Sax. from bracca 2. To be increafed by new production But could youth laft, and love fill breed word ; fo that Siizze Had joys no date, and age no need imagines the name of the part covere Then thefe delights my mind might mov with breeches, to be derived from that o Raleigh To live with thee, and be thy love the garment In this fenfe it has nob h t b T 3 r v h Sfingular. 1. Th garmen wor lower part of the body by men over th Petruchio is' coming in a new hat and an ol jerkin, and a pair of old breeches, thrice turned Shakefp. Taming of the Shrezy Rough fatires, fly remarks, ill-natur'd fpecches Are always aim'd at poets that wear breeches. Prior Give him a fingle coat to make, he'd do 't A veft or breeches, fingly; but the brut Could ne'er contrive all three to makea fuit. King 2. 'To wear the dreeches, is to ufurp th authority of the hufbands The wife of Xanthus was domineering, as i her fortune, and her extra@iop, had entitled he to the breeches L'Eftrange Where they moft breed and haunt, I have ob red 8. To condu& through the firft ftages o 4. 'The hinder part of any thing 79 BREECH. @. 4. [from the noun. 1. To put into breeches Gaulit led Ah wretched me ! by fates averfe decree To bring thee forth with pain, with care t; b;za{ .. Dryden So cannons, when they mount vaft pitches Are tumbled back upon their breeches. Anonymous k were in triump fancy Ah! that thy father had been fo refolv'd ! ~-That thou might't fill have worn the petticoat And ne'er had ftol'n the breech from Lancafter Shakefpeare ol Whoe'er thou art, whofe forward ears are ben 1. The lower part of the body ; the bac ‘a 6. To educate ; to form by education 2. Breeches 3. To occafion ; to caufe; to ‘producé I remember, when the fight wss done #./ { 5'74' 2. To produce from one's felf, .&fi m""«‘f Children would breed their teeth with lefy %' f ger Tho" when he &reathlefs wax, that battle "gan reFairy Queen new BREECH Sax. PTBtel' None fiercer in Numidia 4red Well kne The prince, with patience and fufferance {ly So hafty heat foon cooled to fubdue #./ a 1. To procreate; to generate s to praden P'Oflm more of the fpecies 1. Out of breath ; fpent with labour BreEDE bred. [bpxban, Sax. [from breath. 2. To fit any thing with a breech ; as, t The ready cure to cool the raging pain Is underneath the foot to sreathe a vein. Bre‘aTHER adj Brr'aTHLESS 3. The hinder partof a piece of ordnance Milton's Paradife Loft 'TOBREED Dryden keep them in The artful youth proceed to form the quire 7. 'To utter privately The warmth diftends the chinks, and make Now Lreatbings, whence new nourifhment the takes 2. Dead 1. To infpire, orinhale into one's own bo aw BR ferv'd The air is delicate T Shakefpeare's Macheth There is a worm that breederh in old fnow, anddieth foon after it cometh out of the fnow Bacon's Natural Hiffory The caterpillar is one of the moft general worms, and brecdeth of dew and leaves Bacon It hath been the general tradition and belief that maggots and flies breed in put}ifiedcatcafes' 4. To raife a breed Bently In the choice of fwine, choofe fuch to h-g‘(dO as are of long large bodies BrEeED. 7./ [from the verb. Martimer 1, Acaft; a kind; a fubdivifion of fpleilrf: |