To take charge of or promote the engendering of (animals); to ‘raise’ (cattle).

transitive. To breed (an animal); to propagate (a plant). Also (of a part of a plant): †to produce by propagation, to cause to grow (obsolete).

transitive. To breed (animals); to produce (meat, seafood, etc.).

To produce as offspring; also, to breed, rear (young animals). Obsolete.