[ adj ] having a breast or breasts; or breasts as specified; used chiefly in compounds <adj.all> small-breastedred-breasted sandpiper
Breasted \Breast"ed\, a. Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words, in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breasted coat.
The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open-breasted, on these occasions. --Spectator.
Breast \Breast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Breasting}.] To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.
The court breasted the popular current by sustaining the demurrer. --Wirt.
{To breast up a hedge}, to cut the face of it on one side so as to lay bare the principal upright stems of the plants.