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| blazer |
a jacket in a solid, sometimes bright color, often with a school or club emblem on the breast pocket. [1/2 definitions] |
| bluebird |
a small North American songbird having blue plumage, and, in the male, a reddish breast. |
| boob2 |
(vulgar slang) a female breast. |
| breast-feed |
to feed (a baby) milk from a breast; suckle; nurse. [2 definitions] |
| breastwork |
a temporary, hastily built defensive fortification, usu. of breast height. |
| bullfinch |
a European variety of finch characterized by a short, thick bill and a reddish breast. |
| dickcissel |
a sparrowlike American songbird characterized, in the male, by a yellow breast and a black mark at the throat. |
| double-breasted |
having the sides overlap each other by a wide margin on the breast or front, and usu. having a double vertical row of buttons, as a jacket or coat. (Cf. single-breasted.) [1/2 definitions] |
| dry nurse |
a woman employed to care for another's baby but not to breast-feed it. (Cf. wet nurse.) |
| dry-nurse |
to care for (another's baby) without breast-feeding it. (Cf. wet-nurse.) |
| dug2 |
a female breast or teat. |
| eiderdown |
the soft down from the breast of the female eider, or a quilt or comforter filled with this down. [2/3 definitions] |
| galactorrhea |
the abnormal or excessive flow of milk from a breast. |
| killdeer |
a plover native to North American inland waters and fields, having two black bands on a white breast. |
| knocker |
(vulgar slang) a female breast. [1/3 definitions] |
| mammary |
of or pertaining to an organ that secretes milk, such as a breast or udder. |
| mammogram |
an x-ray picture of the breast, usu. made to check for cancerous growths. |
| mammography |
photography of the breast by x-ray, usu. for detection of cancerous growths. |
| mastectomy |
the removal of a woman's breast by surgery. |
| mastitis |
an inflammation of the breast or udder. |
| masto- |
breast. |
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