1. Noun
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. Noun
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.
3. Noun
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.
4. Noun
The face of a coal working.
5. Noun
The front of a furnace.
6. Noun
The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.
7. Noun
The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.
8. Verb
To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
9. Noun
A torus.
10. Noun
the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest
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