breast : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: breast	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for breast
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
breast n the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen; "he beat his breast in anger" Synonym(s): breast, chest either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman Synonym(s): breast, bosom, knocker, boob, tit, titty meat carved from the breast of a fowl Synonym(s): breast, white meat the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest v meet at breast level; "The runner breasted the tape" reach the summit (of a mountain); "They breasted the mountain"; "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit" Synonym(s): summit, breast confront bodily; "breast the storm" Synonym(s): front, breast
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Brest \Brest\, Breast \Breast\, n. (Arch.) A torus. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breast \Breast\ (br[ecr]st), n. [OE. brest, breost, As. bre[a2]st; akin to Icel. brj[omac]st, Sw. br[94]st, Dan. bryst, Goth. brusts, OS. briost, D. borst, G. brust.] 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 mamma; 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. (Mining) (a) The face of a coal working. (b) 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. [Obs.] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.{Breasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Breasting}.] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.