breasting Definition

breast
noun

1. anatomy.
In women: each of the two mammary glands, which form soft protuberances on the chest, each consisting of a group of milk-secreting glands embedded in fatty tissue.
Thesaurus: bosom, boob (slang), tit (slang); chest, bust.
2. The front part of the body between the neck and the belly.

Example: The robin has a red breast
Example: clutched it to his breast
3. The part of a garment covering the breast.
4. A swelling or curving slope.

Example: breast of the hill
Example: chimney breast
5. now chiefly literary
The source or seat of emotions.

verb breasted, breasting

1. To face, confront or fight against something.

Example: breast the wind
Example: breasting his troubles bravely
2. athletics.
To touch (the tape) at the end of a race with the chest.
3. To come to the top of (a hill, etc).

Idiom: make a clean breast of something

See under clean.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon breost.