\Breed"ing\, n.
1. The act or process of generating or bearing.
2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals;
   as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.
3. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
         She had her breeding at my father's charge. --Shak.
4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and
   decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or
   training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of
   society.
         Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and
         respect which civility obliges us either to express
         or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we
         converse.                             --Hume.
5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.]
         Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. --Shak.
{Close breeding}, {In and in breeding}, breeding from a male
   and female from the same parentage.
{Cross breeding}, breeding from a male and female of
   different lineage.
{Good breeding}, politeness; genteel deportment.
Syn: Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See
     {Education}.