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Definition & Synonyms
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• Breast
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The front of a furnace.
- (n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
- (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.
- (v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
- (n.) 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 mamma; a teat.
- (n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
- (n.) The face of a coal working.
- (n.) A torus.
Synonyms:
Bosom, Front, Knocker, Tit, Titty,
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• Breastpin
- (n.) A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
Synonyms:
Broach, Brooch,
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• Breastplate
- (n.) A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor.
- (n.) A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
- (n.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.
- (n.) A strap that runs across a horses breast.
Synonyms:
Aegis,
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