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Breast   /brɛst/   Listen
Breast

noun
1.
The front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen.  Synonym: chest.
2.
Either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.  Synonyms: boob, bosom, knocker, tit, titty.
3.
Meat carved from the breast of a fowl.  Synonym: white meat.
4.
The part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest.
verb
(past & past part. breasted; pres. part. breasting)
1.
Meet at breast level.
2.
Reach the summit (of a mountain).  Synonym: summit.  "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"
3.
Confront bodily.  Synonym: front.



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"Breast" Quotes from Famous Books



... but have peacefully fortified themselves in their new homes by the adoption of republican institutions for themselves, furnishing another example of the truth that self-government is inherent in the American breast and must prevail. It is due to them that they should be embraced and protected by our laws. It is deemed important that our laws regulating trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes east of the Rocky Mountains should be extended to such tribes ...
— State of the Union Addresses of James Polk • James Polk
... Oofty-Oofty, holding the end of a bandage and looking upon the scene, his velvety and luminous eyes glistening in the light like a deer's eyes, and yet I knew the barbaric devil that lurked in his breast and belied all the softness and tenderness, almost womanly, of his face and form. And I noticed the boyish face of Harrison,—a good face once, but now a demon's,—convulsed with passion as he told the new-comers ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... hand, and clasped it to his breast. How wildly his heart beat under my touch! I trembled from head to foot,—but I said, in a cold voice, "You are a ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various
... untoward revelations of the Citoyenne might cost him his own head. The next act in this Aeschylean drama is described by the believers in the legend in the following words: "Tallien drew Theresia's dagger from his breast and flashed it in the sunlight as though to nerve himself for the desperate business that confronted him. 'This,' he cried passionately, 'will be my final argument,' and looking about him to make sure he was alone he raised the blade to ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring
... beside the bed and looked at the dead, peaked features, as if they expected something else to happen. Wishful to rouse within themselves a sense of horror and pity, they watched Novikoff intently as he closed the dead man's eyes and crossed his hands on his breast. Then they went out quietly and cautiously. In the passages lamps were now lighted, and all seemed so familiar and simple that every one breathed more freely. The priest went first, tripping along with short steps. Desiring to say a few words of consolation to the young ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef


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