Inbreed \In*breed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inbred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inbreeding}.] [Cf. {Imbreed}.] 1. To produce or generate within. --Bp. Reynolds.
To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. --Milton.
2. To breed in and in. See under {Breed}, v. i.
Like him, Gamble is a chartered accountant, and similarly caused some surprise in an inbred industry when he was brought in from outside in 1986. There, however, the similarities end.
Mostly they're angry that they have no impact on an inbred ruling class.
The inbred laboratory mice have a genetic defect that prevents their muscles from making dystrophin, making the rodents ideal research animals for muscular dystrophy.
The rats came from a special, inbred strain whose immune system accepts other tissue without attacking it.
"So many purebreds are so inbred that their disposition and temperament are destroyed," Mrs. Dickson said.
It is hard to imagine a more suitable appointment to a department notorious for the pedestrian, inbred, insular and dull, and very much the creature of the National Educational Association.
Ortega is fascinated by the inbred Nicaraguan upper class.
"And part of what has fueled it is the inbred subsidy of interest deductions," he says.