資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Breeding \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}.

In \In\, adv.
   1. Not out; within; inside. In, the preposition, becomes an
      adverb by omission of its object, leaving it as the
      representative of an adverbial phrase, the context
      indicating what the omitted object is; as, he takes in the
      situation (i. e., he comprehends it in his mind); the
      Republicans were in (i. e., in office); in at one ear and
      out at the other (i. e., in or into the head); his side
      was in (i. e., in the turn at the bat); he came in (i. e.,
      into the house).

            Their vacation . . . falls in so pat with ours.
                                                  --Lamb.

   Note: The sails of a vessel are said, in nautical language,
         to be in when they are furled, or when stowed. In
         certain cases in has an adjectival sense; as, the in
         train (i. e., the incoming train); compare up grade,
         down grade, undertow, afterthought, etc.

   2. (Law) With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a
      holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by
      purchase; in of the seisin of her husband. --Burrill.

   {In and in breeding}. See under {Breeding}.

   {In and out} (Naut.), through and through; -- said of a
      through bolt in a ship's side. --Knight.

   {To be in}, to be at home; as, Mrs. A. is in.

   {To come in}. See under {Come}.