BREAST
\bɹˈɛst], \bɹˈɛst], \b_ɹ_ˈɛ_s_t]\
Definitions of BREAST
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
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That part of the body which contains the lungs and heart; conscience; mind; affections.
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To bear the breast against; to oppose.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To encounter; buffet; stem.
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The front of the chest.
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One of the mammary glands; the bosom.
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The seat of the affections; mind; heart.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The fore part of the body, between the neck and the abdomen; the soft protuberance on the thorax, terminating in a nipple; the bosom; the heart; the seat of the affections and passions; the front or fore part.
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To meet in front; to face. To make a clean breast, to reveal all one knows. To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it.
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The member of a column, more usually called torus.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The fore part of the human body, between the neck and the belly; in quadrupeds, the part between the force feet; the heart; the conscience; the affections; in mining, the face of coal-workings; the wooden partition that divides a shaft from bottom to top into two compartments.
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To meet in front.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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