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Definition of breed : 1. A number produced at once; a brood.
2. A race or variety of men or other animals ( or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance.
3. Class; sort; kind; - of men, things, or qualities.
4. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.
5. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
6. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; - sometimes followed by up.
7. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease.
8. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.
9. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied.
10. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch.
11. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
12. To raise a breed; to get progeny.
13. To raise, as any kind of stock.
14. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster.

Synonyms:

nisus, report, straining, song, gillyflower, variant, tenor, melody, neckcloth, continue, livestock, origin, stock certificate, produce, tune, cross, store, gunstock, bring forth, spawn, hide, enshroud, striving, father, get, cover, care for, stemma, pains, sire, originate, group, parentage, melodic phrase, var., mother, half-breed, get across, stress, overcompensate, shroud, track, fund, cut across, overlay, compensate, embrace, treat, cast, blood line, nature, address, pass over, extend, comprehend, reproduction, increase, deal, wrap up, encompass, mental strain, cultivate, cut through, underwrite, broth, create, lot, incubate, line of descent, inventory, manifold, caudex, air, raise, spread over, grow, bloodline, traverse, insure, reproduce, nervous strain, handle, brood, multiply, parent, kin, manner, proliferate, blood, plow, melodic line, farm animal, hatch, get over, description, cover up

grade, set, ilk, denomination, kind, stamp, people, step, type, sort, line, genus, rank, family, classification, feather, species, make, order, persuasion, phylum, style, class, label, grain, genotype, series, category, brand, caste, level, clan, variety, stripe, taxonomy, mold, form, kingdom, degree, strain, designation

genealogy, lineage, descent, ancestry, pedigree, stock, race

engender, procreate, propagate, generate, beget

groom, domesticate, train, hostle, tame, housebreak, farm, ranch, herd, break, wrangle

Usage examples:

• Of course, Terra being the original world, was bound to have the best the race could breed in all lines of endeavor. - "Man of Many Minds", E. Everett Evans.
• " That is exactly the breed I want," he answered. - "The Girl at Cobhurst", Frank Richard Stockton.
• The differences in the symptoms are accounted for by peculiarities of breed, the condition of stalls, the food the animals have lived on, and similar circumstances. - "On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment", Honoré Bourguignon.