breedeth
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[edit]breedeth
- (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative of breed
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The moth breedeth upon cloth and other lanifices; especially if they be laid up dankish and wet.