Children would breed their teeth with less danger.
Locke.
Syn. -- To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct.
Breed, v. i. 1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant.
That they breed abundantly in the earth.
Gen. viii. 17.
The mother had never bred before.
Carpenter.
Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast.
Shak.
2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth.