374 B R E 
To BREED, v. a. preter. I bred, I have bred, \_broedan, 
Saxon ] To procreate; to generate, to produce hi ore of 
the fpecies : 
None fiercer in Numidia bred, 
With Carthage were in triumph led. Rofcommon. 
To produce from one’s feIf.—Children would breed their 
teeth with lei's danger. Locke .—To occafion ; to caufe; to 
produce.—Intemperance and lull breed infirmities and dif- 
eafes, which, being propagated, fpoil the drain of a nation. 
Tillotfon. To contrive ; to hatch ; to plot. To give birth 
to; to be the native place : fo, there are breeding ponds, 
and feeding ponds. To educate; to form by education : 
To breed up the fon to common fenfe, 
Is evermore the parent’s leal! expence, Dryden. 
To bring up ; to take care_of from infancy : 
Ah wretched me! by fates averfe decreed 
To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. 
To condudl through the firll dages of life : 
Bred up in grief, dan pleafure be our theme > 
Our endlefs anguilh does not nature claim ? 
Reafon and forrow are to us the fame. Prior. 
To BREED, v. n. To bring young.—Lucina, it feems, 
was breeding , as die did nothing but entertain the company 
with a difcourle upon the difficulty of reckoning to a day. 
Addifon .—To be increafed by new production : 
But could youth lad, and love dill breed , 
Had joys no date, and age no need ; 
Then thefe delights my mind might move 
To live with thee, and be thy love. Raleigh. 
To be produced ; to have birth.—The caterpillar is one 
of the mod general of worms, and breedcik of dew and 
leaves. Bacon .—To raife a breed.—In the choice of fwine, 
choofe fucli to breed of as are of long large bodies. Mortimer. 
BREED, f. A cafi ; a kind ; a fubdivifioil of fpecies. 
—Walled towns, dared arfenals, and ordnance ; all this 
is but a fheep in a lion’s fkin, except the breed and difpoli- 
tion of the people be dout and warlike. Bacon .—A fami¬ 
ly, a generation, in contempt.—A coufin of his lad wife’s 
was propofed ; but John would have no more of the breed. 
Arbulhnot .—Progeny ; offspring. A number produced at 
once; a hatch.—She lays them in the fand, where they 
lie till they are hatched, fometimes above a hundred at a 
breed. Grew. 
BREED'B ATE, f. One that breeds quarrels ; fin in¬ 
cendiary.—An honeft willing fellow ; and, I warrant you, ' 
no telltale nor no breedbate. Shakefpeare. 
BREED'ER,/! That which produces any thing.— 
Time is the nurfe and breeder of all good. Shakefpeare .— 
The perfon which brings up another.—Time was, when 
Italy and Rome have been the bed breeders and bringers 
up of the worthieft men. Afcham .—A female that is pro¬ 
lific,—Get thee to a nunnery : why woulded thou be a 
breeder of Tinners ? Shakefpeare .—One that takes care to 
raife a breed. -^-The breeders of Englifh cattle turned much 
fo dairy, or elfe kept their cattle to fix or (even years 
©Id! Temple. 
BP.EED’s HILL, a place in America, near Bodon, ce¬ 
lebrated for the dand made by the Americans, in the be¬ 
ginning of the war, againft the Britidi troops : the Ame¬ 
ricans lod five pieces of cannon, and had 139 men killed; 
the lofs of the Britifh troops amounted to £054, nineteen 
officers were killed and feventy wounded : this is ufually 
called the battle of Bunker’s hill, another hill near it ; it 
happened on the 17th of June, 1775. See the article 
Ameuica, vol. i. p.44.1. 
BRERD'ING, /. Education ; inftrtiTion; qualification. 
~-I hope to fee it 3 piece of none of the meaneft breeding, 
to be acquainted with the laws of nature. Glanville. —Man¬ 
ners ; know ledge of ceiemony : 
As men of breeding, fometimes men of wit, 
T’avoid great erfors, mud the lefs commit. Pope. 
B R E 
Nurture; care to bring up from the infant date : 
Why was my breeding order’d and preferib’d, 
As of a perfon feparate to God, 
Defign’d for great exploits ? Milton. 
The accompliffiments of a well-bred perfon are hard fo 
define ; none can underdand the Speculation but-thofe who 
have the practice. Good-breeding amounts to much the 
fame with politenefs, among the ancient Romans called 
urbanity. Good-breeding is near to virtue, and will of 
itfelf lead a great way towards benevolence. It teaches 
to rejoice in adds of civility, to feek out objects of compal- 
fion, and to be pleafed with every occafion-of doing good 
offices. Lord Shaftelbury compares the well-bred man 
with the real philofopher : both characters aim at what is 
excellent, afpire to a juft tafte, and carry % view the mo r 
del of what is beautiful and becoming. The conduct and 
manners of the one are formed according to the mod per¬ 
fect eafe, and good entertainment of company; of the 
other, according to the firictelt intereft of mankind; the 
one according to his rank and quality in'his private ftation, 
the other according to his rank and dignity in nature. 
Horace feems to have united both characters: Quid verum 
atque decens euro et rogo, el omnis in hoefum. 
BREEDING of Fish. See Fish-Pond. 
BREEN'BERG (Bartholomew), a celebrated painter, 
born in 1620. He is belt known by the name of Bartolo¬ 
meo, an appellation bellowed on him, for difiinCtion.fake, 
by the fociety of Flemifh painters at Rome, called Bent- 
vogels. He was born at Utrecht, and in the early part of 
his life wen. to Rome. His fiudies in the art of painting 
were attended with fuch fuccefs, that his pictures were 
held in the higheft eftimation : he excelled in landfcapes,- 
and thefeTe enriched with hiftorical fubjeCts ; the figures 
and animals which he introduced were very fpirited, and 
executed in a mafierly manner. He died in 1660, aged 
forty years. He etched frpm his own defigns a fet of 24 
Views and Landfcapes, ornamented with Ruins. 
BREE'SEB ACH, a river of Germany, which runs in¬ 
to the Unfirntt, four miles fouth of Weiffenfee, in the 
circle of Upper Saxony. 
BREEZE, f. \_brezza, Ital.] A gentle.gale; afoftwind: 
Gradual (Inks the breeze 
Into a perfeCt calm ; that not a breath 
Is heard to quiver through the doling wood. Thomfon. 
BREEZE-FLY, f. in entomology. See Tabanus. 
BREE'ZY, adj. Fanned with gales : 
The feer, while zephyrs curl the fwelling deep, • 
Bafks on the breezy (hore, in grateful deep. Pope. 
BREG AN£ON', a fortrefs of France, on a fmall ifiand 
in the Mediterranean, near the coaft between Toulon and 
St. Tropez. 
BREGENTZ', a county of Germany, in the circle of 
Swabia, but annexed to the circle of Auftria," bounded 
on the north by the territory of Wangen, on the caff by 
the bilhopric of Augfburg and the Tyrolefe, on the fouth 
by the counties of Pludentz and Montfort, and on the weft 
by the Rhine and the lake of Conftance. It anciently be¬ 
longed to the counts of Montfort, who fold it to the houfe 
of Aufiria for 316,000 francs. 
BREGENTZ', a city of Germany, and capital of the 
county of the fame name, fituated at the eaft end of the 
lake of Conftance. It was taken by the French republican 
army, on the g'th of Auguft, 1796. There are feveral 
forges in its environs, and towards the fouth it has a 
fort. It is four miles fouth-eaft of Lindau, and fixty eaft- 
north eaft of Zurick. 
BREGENTZ', a river of Germany, which runs into 
the lake of Conftance, near the town fo called. 
BREGY' (Charlotte Saumaife de Cliazan, comteffe de), 
niece of the learned Saumaife (Salmafms), was one of the 
ladies of honour to queen Anne of Aufiria. She was dif- 
tinguifhed at that court by her beauty and her wit; both 
of which file preferved to an advanced age, and died at 
Paris, 
