in a general sense, the producing, nourishing, and educating, all manner of young animals.

in a moral sense, denotes a person's deportment or behaviour in the external offices and decors of social life. In this sense we say well-bred, ill-bred, a man of breeding, &c. Good-breeding is hard to define; none can understand the speculation but those who have the practice. Good-breeding amounts to much the same with what is otherwise called politeness, among the ancient Romans' urbanity. Good-breeding is near to virtue, and will of itself lead a man a great part of the way towards the same. It teaches him to rejoice in acts of civility, to seek out objects of compassion, and to be pleased with every occasion of doing them good offices. Lord Shaftesbury compares the well-bred man with the real philosopher; both characters aim at what is excellent, aspire to a just taste, and carry in view the model of what is beautiful and becoming. The conduct and manners of the one are formed according to the most perfect ease, and good entertainment of company; of the other, according to the strictest interest of mankind: the one according to his rank and quality in his private station; the other according to his rank and dignity in nature. Horace seems to have united both characters,

Quid verum atque decens cur eo et rogo, et omnis in hoc sum.

See the article Good-Manners.

BREEDING OF HORSES. See Equus.