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breasting


breasting [bres-ting] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a piece of leather or other material for covering the heel breast of a shoe. Liberaldictionary.com

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  • Origin of breasting breast + -ing1 breast [brest] noun Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest. Zoology. the corresponding part in quadrupeds. either of the pair of mammae occurring on the chest in humans and having a discrete areola around the nipple, especially the mammae of the female after puberty, which are enlarged and softened by hormonally influenced mammary-gland development and fat deposition and which secrete milk after the birth of a child: the breasts of males normally remain rudimentary. the part of a garment that covers the chest. the bosom conceived of as the center of emotion: What anger lay in his breast when he made that speech? a projection from a wall, as part of a chimney. any surface or part resembling or likened to the human breast. Mining. the face or heading at which the work is going on. Metallurgy.

    1. the front of an open-hearth furnace.
    2. the clay surrounding the taphole of a cupola.

    Nautical.

    1. breast line.
    2. a rounded bow.

    verb (used with object) to meet or oppose boldly; confront: As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism. to contend with or advance against: The ship breasted the turbulent seas. to climb or climb over (a mountain, obstacle, etc.). to overcome, succeed against. to come alongside or abreast of. Verb Phrases breast in, Nautical. to bind (an object, as a boatswain’s chair) securely under a projection, as the flare of a bow. breast off, Nautical.

    1. to thrust (a vessel) sideways from a wharf.
    2. to keep (a vessel) away from a wharf by means of timbers.

    Idioms

      beat one’s breast, to display one’s grief, remorse, etc., in a loud and demonstrative manner. make a clean breast of, to confess everything (of which one is guilty): You’ll feel better if you make a clean breast of it.

    Origin of breast before 1000; Middle English brest, Old English brēost; cognate with Old Norse brjōst; akin to German Brust, Gothic brusts, Dutch borst Related formsbreast·less, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for breasting Historical Examples of breasting

  • It shot forward, breasting the current, and was soon well away from the cliff.

    Frank Roscoe’s Secret

    Allen Chapman

  • Far at its end stood the train, breasting the darkness without.

    Howards End

    E. M. Forster

  • I was breasting the opposite hill when several other Zulus joined the first.

    Hendricks the Hunter

    W.H.G. Kingston

  • She was his true mate for breasting a world honoured in uplifting her.

    One of Our Conquerors, Complete

    George Meredith

  • Into the grass, belly-deep, the big horses plunged, breasting it like the sea.

    Neighbors Unknown

    Charles G. D. Roberts

  • British Dictionary definitions for breasting breast noun the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest either of the two soft fleshy milk-secreting glands on the chest in sexually mature human femalesadjective mammary a similar organ in certain other mammals anything that resembles a breast in shape or positionthe breast of the hill a source of nourishmentthe city took the victims to its breast the source of human emotions the part of a garment that covers the breast a projection from the side of a wall, esp that formed by a chimney mining the face being worked at the end of a tunnel beat one’s breast to display guilt and remorse publicly or ostentatiously make a clean breast of to make a confession of verb (tr) to confront boldly; facebreast the storm to oppose with the breast or meet at breast levelbreasting the waves to come alongside ofbreast the ship to reach the summit ofbreasting the mountain top Word Origin for breast Old English brēost; related to Old Norse brjōst, Old High German brust, Dutch borst, Swedish bräss, Old Irish brū belly, body Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for breasting breast n.

    Old English breost “breast, bosom; mind, thought, disposition,” from Proto-Germanic *breustam “breast” (cf. Old Saxon briost, Old Frisian briast, Old Norse brjost, Dutch borst, German brust, Gothic brusts), perhaps literally “swelling” and from PIE root *bhreus- “to swell, sprout” (cf. Middle Irish bruasach “having a broad, strong chest,” Old Irish bruinne “breast”). The spelling conforms to the Scottish and northern England dialectal pronunciation. Figurative sense of “seat of the emotions” was in Old English.

    Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper breasting in Medicine breast [brĕst] n. Either of two milk-secreting, glandular organs on the chest of a woman; mammary gland; mamma. A corresponding rudimentary gland in the male. The superior ventral surface of the human body, extending from the neck to the abdomen. The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. Idioms and Phrases with breasting breast

    see keep abreast of; make a clean breast of.

    The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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