Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BREED'ING, n.

1. The act of generating or producing.
2. The raising of a breed or breeds; as, the farmer attends to the breeding of sheep.
3. Nurture; education; instruction; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. – Shak.
4. 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. – Encyc.