breed vb. (sense 1 is peculiar to S.)
1.
“bred out,” exhausted,
degenerated
H5 III. v. 29
“Our mettle is bred
out,”
Tim. I. i. 259
“The strain of man's
bred out Into baboon and monkey.”
2.
to keep, support
Wint. III. iii. 47
“Which may . . . breed
thee”
(=may suffice to bring thee up),
Lr. IV. ii. 73
“A servant that he
bred,”
Cym. II. iii,
119
“One bred of
alms,”
Sonn. cxii. 13*
“in my purpose bred”
(a) kept in my thoughts, (b) intimately bound up
with my life-purpose.
