Word Finder - breast

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Either of the two organs on the front of a female human's chest, which contain the mammary glands; also the analogous organs in males.

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Tanya's breasts grew remarkably during pregnancy.

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The chest, or front of the human thorax.

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A section of clothing covering the breast area.

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The figurative seat of the emotions, feelings etc.; one's heart or innermost thoughts.

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She kindled hope in the breast of all who heard her.

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The ventral portion of an animal's thorax.

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The robin has a red breast.

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A choice cut of poultry, especially chicken or turkey, taken from the bird’s breast; also a cut of meat from other animals, breast of mutton, veal, pork.

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Would you like breast or wing?

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The front or forward part of anything.

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a chimney breast; a plough breast

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The face of a coal working.

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The front of a furnace.

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The power of singing; a musical voice.

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To push against with the breast; to meet full on, oppose, face.

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To reach the top (of a hill).

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He breasted the hill and saw the town before him.

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To debreast.

When they met, she fell on his breast, sobbing.

This bird never assumes any crimson on the crown or breast, but the male has the rump at all times tinged more or 1 E.g.

His fingers dug into her breast as he eagerly nursed.

Then they caressed their way up her side, his thumb sliding under her bra and gently up the curve of her breast.

A warm hand caressed its way up her back and around to cradle her breast.

He leaned down and kissed her exposed breast.

His hand slipped to her side, gently exploring upward until it reached her breast.

His fingers searched under the elastic of her bra, finding and grasping the breast.

The Mason drew the shirt back from Pierre's left breast, and stooping down pulled up the left leg of his trousers to above the knee.

As if testing her courage, it slowly slid down her chest to the swell of her breast.

When his lips left hers, they seared a hot trail down her neck and onto her breast.

When he cupped her breast in his hand outside her blouse, she stiffened instinctively.

His attention was distracted momentarily as the feeding tube was switched to Carmen's other breast.

He appeared satisfied at last and touched her breast.

He grabbed my breast.

The stimulus of water on the breast may be regarded as a sensory presentation which is followed by a definite and adaptive application of behaviour.

On the paved platform were three-storey tower temples in whose ground-floor stood the stone images and altars, and before that of the war-god the green stone of sacrifice, humped so as to bend upward the body of the victim that the priest might more easily slash open the breast with his obsidian knife, tear out the heart and hold it up before the god, while the captor and his friends were waiting below for the carcase to be tumbled down the steps for them to carry home to be cooked for the feast of victory.

She tried to put my hand on her breast.

She lifted the wing and examined the bloody breast.

In his violence, bound as he was, he tore his clothes into shreds, and his bare shoulders and breast were exposed to the gaze of the surging crowd.

Most of these are perforated for mounting on threads or wires, and had been, no doubt, originally connected together to form one or more of the elaborate girdles, necklaces and breast ornaments then worn by the women.3 On the bottom of the stone box there was similar dust, pieces of bone and jewelry, and also remains of what had been vessels of wood.

She was represented standing, in a long tunic; on her head was a helmet, ornamented with sphinxes and griffins; on her breast was the aegis, fringed with serpents and the Gorgon's head in centre.

This breast ornament finds analogies in the royal and high priestly dress of Egypt, and in the six jewels of the Babylonian king. ?

They are closely arrayed, capable of depression or elevation, and form a shield to the front of the breast impenetrable by the bill of a rival.

The stole is worn immediately over the alb; by deacons, scarf-wise over the left shoulder, across the breast and back to the right side; by priests and bishops, dependent from the neck, the two ends falling over the breast.

This last reason, while probably most effective with the judges, only stirred up more furiously the fury in Schopenhauer's breast, and his preface is one long fulmination against the ineptitudes and the charlatanry of his bête noire, Hegel.

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His white breast, the stillness of the air, and the smoothness of the water were all against him.

Baby Claire was often in evidence in our work place, sleeping on mother's arm or in her file cabinet remodeled crib, or supping on Martha's breast.

She read the list until panic stirred in her breast.

She'd been trying to avoid the crushing sense of betrayal building in her breast.

Her smile faded, pain filling her breast.

Somewhere in the fog of emotion she felt his hand cup her breast.

His face remained emotionless, but she sensed the struggle within his breast.

Alp Arslan, the most skilful archer of his day, motioned to his guards not to interfere and drew his bow, but his foot slipped, the arrow glanced aside and he received the assassin's dagger in his breast.

The working parts of the plough are the coulter, the share, and the breast or mould-board.

A frame is bolted to the beam and this carries the breast or mould-board to the fore-end of which the share is fitted.

The form of a furrow is regulated by the shape and width of the share, working in combination with a proper shaped breast.

According to native report, the gorillas sleep on these beds, which are of sufficient thickness to raise them a foot or two above the ground, in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forwards on the breast.

There is a little bird, the size of a starling, with brown back striped with black, and white breast, which the Indians call yncahualpa; it utters a monotonous sound at each hour of the night.

His bristly black person, and shagged breast quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown and his bushy hair dishevelled.

The present practice - according to which the bishop lays the stole over the left shoulder of the deacon, and crosses it over the breast of the priest - is already found in the pontificals of the 10th century.

Its ancient form has been retained only by the Nestorians, who wear it crossed over the breast.

According to a well-known story, a young woman in humble circumstances, whose father (or mother) was lying in prison under sentence of death, without food, managed to gain admittance, and fed her parent with milk from her breast.

The finest of the captives was thrown down and fire kindled on his breast by the wooden drill of the priest; then the victim's heart was torn out, and his body flung on the pile kindled with the new flame.

The chasuble or planeta (as it is called in the Roman missal), according to the prevailing model in the Roman Catholic Church, is a scapularlike cloak, with a hole in the middle for the head, falling down over breast and back, and leaving the arms uncovered at the sides.

The lips, throat, breast and belly, the inside of the legs and the lower sides of tail are pure white, marked with irregular spots of black, those on the breast being long bars and on the belly and inside of legs large blotches.

In the East, even now, one who wishes to create a blood tie between himself and his followers and cement them to himself, makes under his left breast an incision from which they each in turn suck his blood.

In winter of a nearly uniform ash-grey above and white beneath, in summer the feathers of the back are black, with deep rust-coloured edges, and a broad black belt occupies the breast.