breast

Definitions

1. 1noun

   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. 2noun

   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. 3noun

   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. 4noun

   The face of a coal working.

5. 5noun

   The front of a furnace.

6. 6noun

   The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.

7. 7noun

   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. 8transitive verb

   To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

9. 9noun

   A torus.

10. 10noun

    the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest

11. 11noun

    the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

    "he beat his breast in anger"

    Synonyms

    chest
12. 12noun

    either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

    Synonyms

    boobbosomknockertittitty
13. 13noun

    meat carved from the breast of a fowl

14. 14verb

    confront bodily

    "breast the storm"

    Synonyms

    front
15. 15verb

    reach the summit (of a mountain)

    "They breasted the mountain"

    "Many mountaineers go up Mt. Everest but not all summit"

    Synonyms

    summit
16. 16verb

    meet at breast level

    "The runner breasted the tape"