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breasted

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breast·ed  (brstd)
adj.
Having a specified kind of breast or breasts. Often used in combination: small-breasted; a red-breasted bird.
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Adj.1.breasted - having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds; "small-breasted"; "red-breasted sandpiper"
breastless - without a breast


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Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.
Whether she ran with her tall spars swinging, or breasted it with her tall spars lying over, there was always that wild song, deep like a chant, for a bass to the shrill pipe of the wind played on the sea- tops, with a punctuating crash, now and then, of a breaking wave.
As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded with sailors, whose feet were burnt to such an extent by the heat of the deck as to render it unbearable; still the Abraham Lincoln had not yet breasted the suspected waters of the Pacific.
 
 
 
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