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Afterpains :: Afterpains (n. pl.) The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth..

Denizen :: Denizen (n.) One who is admitted by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen..

Eminent :: Eminent (a.) Being, metaphorically, above others, whether by birth, high station, merit, or virtue; high in public estimation; distinguished; conspicuous; as, an eminent station; an eminent historian, statements, statesman, or saint..

Couvade :: Couvade (n.) A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill..

Kin :: Kin (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent..

Trigeminous :: Trigeminous (a.) Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold..

Big :: Big (superl.) Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

Midwife :: Midwife (v. t.) To assist in childbirth.

Stillborn :: Stillborn (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child..

Vernacular :: Vernacular (a.) Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language..

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..

Viability :: Viability (n.) The capacity of living after birth.

Church :: Church (v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women..

Horoscope :: Horoscope (n.) The representation made of the aspect of the heavens at the moment of a person's birth, by which the astrologer professed to foretell the events of the person's life; especially, the sign of the zodiac rising above the horizon at such a moment..

Base :: Base (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.

Labor :: Labor (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.

Midwifery :: Midwifery (n.) Assistance at childbirth; help or cooperation in production.

Birthright :: Birthright (n.) Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born..

Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..

Connate :: Connate (a.) Born with another; being of the same birth.

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