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good
     1. adj. of people
     2. adj.          Acting in the interest of what is beneficial, ethical, or moral.
                   good intentions
     3. adj.          Competent or talented.
                   a good swimmer
     4. adj.          Able to be depended on for the discharge of obligations incurred; of unimpaired credit.
                   Can you lend me fifty dollars? You know I'm good for it.
     5. adj.          (US) Satisfied or at ease
                   Would you like a glass of water? — I'm good.
                   Are you good? — Yeah, I'm fine.
     6. adj. of capabilities
     7. adj.          Useful for a particular purpose; functional.
                   it’s a good watch;  the flashlight batteries are still good
     8. adj.          Effective.
                   a good worker
     9. adj.          (obsolete) Real; actual; serious.
                   in good sooth
     10. adj. of properties and qualities
     11. adj.          (of food)
     12. adj.         # Edible; not stale or rotten.
              #     The bread is still good.
     13. adj.         # Having a particularly pleasant taste.
              #     The food was very good.
     14. adj.         # Being satisfying; meeting dietary requirements.
              #     Eat a good dinner so you will be ready for the big game tomorrow.
     15. adj.          Healthful.
                   carrots are good for you;  walking is good for you
     16. adj.          Pleasant; enjoyable.
                   the music, dancing, and food were very good;  we had a good time
     17. adj.          Favourable.
                   a good omen;  good weather
     18. adj.          Beneficial; worthwhile.
                   a good job
     19. adj.          Adequate; sufficient; not fallacious.
     20. adj. (colloquial, when with and) Very, extremely.
           The soup is good and hot.
     21. adj. Holy (especially when capitalized).
           Good Friday
     22. adj. of quantities
     23. adj.          Reasonable in amount.
                   all in good time
     24. adj.          Large in amount or size.
                   a good while longer;  a good number of seeds;  A good part of his day was spent shopping.  It will be a good while longer until he
     25. adj.          Full; entire; at least as much as.
                   This hill will take a good hour and a half to climb.  The car was a good ten miles away.
     26. interj. That is good; an elliptical exclamation of satisfaction or commendation.
           Good! I can leave now.
     27. adv. (nonstandard) Well; satisfactorily or thoroughly.
     28. n. The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.
     29. n. A result that is positive in the view of the speaker.
     30. n. The abstract instantiation of goodness; that which possesses desirable qualities, promotes success, welfare, or happiness, is serviceable, fit, excellent, kind, benevolent, etc.
           The best is the enemy of the good.
     31. n. (usually in plural) An item of merchandise.
     32. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To thrive; fatten; prosper; improve.
     33. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make good; turn to good; improve.
     34. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To make improvements or repairs.
     35. v. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To benefit; gain.
     36. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To do good to (someone); benefit; cause to improve or gain.
     37. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To satisfy; indulge; gratify.
     38. v. (reflexive, now chiefly dialectal) To flatter; congratulate oneself; anticipate.
     39. v. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) To furnish with dung; manure; fatten with manure; fertilise.
breeding
     1. n. Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction.
     2. n. The act of insemination by natural or artificial means.
     3. n. The act of copulation in animals.
     4. n. The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity.
     5. n. Nurture; education; formation of manners.
     6. n. Descent; pedigree; extraction.
           Your dog has good breeding.
     7. n. (gay slang) Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex, usually applied to gay pornography.
     8. adj. Of, relating to or used for breeding.
           Your toothbrush is a breeding ground for bacteria.
     9. v. present participle of breed
           Through genetic manipulation and harsh training, I am breeding a species of super-dogs to take over the world.
     breed
          1. v. To produce offspring sexually; to bear young.
          2. v. To give birth to; to be the native place of.
                a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men
          3. v. Of animals, to mate.
          4. v. To keep animals and have them reproduce in a way that improves the next generation’s qualities.
          5. v. To arrange the mating of specific animals.
                She wanted to breed her cow to the neighbor's registered bull.
          6. v. To propagate or grow plants trying to give them certain qualities.
                He tries to breed blue roses.
          7. v. To take care of in infancy and through childhood; to bring up.
          8. v. To yield or result in.
                disaster breeds famine;  familiarity breeds contempt
          9. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, like young before birth.
          10. v. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; sometimes followed by up.
          11. v. To produce or obtain by any natural process.
          12. v. (intransitive) To have birth; to be produced, developed or multiplied.
          13. v. to ejaculate inside someone's ass
          14. n. All animals or plants of the same species or subspecies.
                a breed of tulip
                a breed of animal
          15. n. A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
          16. n. (informal) A group of people with shared characteristics.
                People who were taught classical Greek and Latin at school are a dying breed.
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
ancestry
     1. n. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.
           Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. -Addison.
     2. n. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.
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