Brĕst or Breast, n.
(brĕst), n. (Arch.) The member of a column, more usually called torus or tore. See TORUS.
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Brĕast, n. p. 161noun The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly. “Whose heads stood in their breasts.” Shak. 2. The protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and…Brēast, v. t. p. 162verbtransitive To meet with the breast; to oppose manfully. Goldsmith. 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…