Definition of premature

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Premature (a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay..

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Immature :: Immature (a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death..
Slink :: Slink (a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf..
Abortifacient :: Abortifacient (n.) A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.
Premature :: Premature (a.) Happening, arriving, existing, or performed before the proper or usual time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay..
Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..
Unripe :: Unripe (a.) Developing too early; premature.
Predecay :: Predecay (n.) Premature decay.
Precocious :: Precocious (a.) Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees..
Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To bring forth (young) prematurely; to slink.
Slink :: Slink (v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf..
Warp :: Warp (v.) A premature casting of young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..
Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..
Viable :: Viable (a.) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant..
Abortion :: Abortion (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage..
Untimely :: Untimely (a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death..
Prejudicate :: Prejudicate (a.) Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced.
Premature :: Premature (a.) Arriving or received without due authentication or evidence; as, a premature report..
Untimely :: Untimely (adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.
Warp :: Warp (v. i.) To cast the young prematurely; to slink; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..
Castling :: Castling (n.) That which is cast or brought forth prematurely; an abortion.
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