Breeding

Breeding - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

BREE'DING, ppr. Bearing and nourishing, as a fetus; engendering; producing; educating.

BREE'DING, n. The act of generating or of producing.

1. The raising of a breed or breeds; as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.

2. Nurture; education; instruction; formation of manners.

She had her breeding at my father's charge.

3. By way of eminence, manners; knowledge of ceremony; deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life. Hence good breeding is politeness, or the qualifications which constitute genteel deportment.