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Definition of Breast

1. Verb. Meet at breast level. "The runner breasted the tape"

2. Noun. The front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen. "He beat his breast in anger"

3. Verb. Reach the summit (of a mountain). "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

4. Noun. Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.

5. Verb. Confront bodily. "Breast the storm"

6. Noun. Meat carved from the breast of a fowl.

7. Noun. The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest.

Definition of Breast

1. n. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

2. v. t. To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

Definition of Breast

1. Noun. Either of the two organs on the front of a woman's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in men. ¹

2. Noun. The chest, or front of the human thorax. ¹

3. Noun. A section of clothing covering the breast area. ¹

4. Noun. The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts. ¹

5. Noun. The ventral portion of an animal's thorax. ¹

6. Noun. A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To push against with the breast; to meet full on, to oppose, to face. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Breast

1. to confront boldly [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Breast

1. To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves. "The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer." (Wirt) To breast up a hedge, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants. Origin: Breasted; Breasted. 1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. 2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. "My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother." (Cant. Viii. 1) 3. Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill. "Mountains on whose barren breast The laboring clouds do often rest." (Milton) 4. The face of a coal working. The front of a furnace. 5. The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart. "He has a loyal breast." (Shak) 6. The power of singing; a musical voice; so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast. "By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast." (Shak) Breast drill, a portable drilling machine, provided with a breastplate, for forcing the drill against the work. Breast pang. See Angina pectoris, under Angina. To make a clean breast, to disclose the secrets which weigh upon one; to make full confession. Origin: OE. Brest, breost, As. Breost; akin to Icel. Brjst, Sw. Brost, Dan. Bryst, Goth. Brusts, OS. Briost, D. Borst, G. Brust. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Breast

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breare breares breaskit breaskits breast (current term) breast-deep breast-fed breast-feed breast-high breast augmentation

breast augmentations breast bone breast cancer breast cancer susceptibility genes breast carcinoma breast dose in mammography breast drill breast feed breast feeding

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