Definition of birth

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Birth (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire..

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Afterbirth :: Afterbirth (n.) The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery..
Cross-birth :: Cross-birth (n.) Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus..
Gentility :: Gentility (n.) Good extraction; dignity of birth.
Placenta :: Placenta (n.) The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth..
Princely :: Princely (a.) Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men..
Obstetrics :: Obstetrics (n.) The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth..
Pain :: Pain (n.) Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth..
Litter :: Litter (v. t.) To give birth to; to bear; -- said of brutes, esp. those which produce more than one at a birth, and also of human beings, in abhorrence or contempt..
Antenatal :: Antenatal (a.) Before birth.
Childbirth :: Childbirth (n.) The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
Liberal :: Liberal (a.) Free by birth; hence, befitting a freeman or gentleman; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; as, a liberal ancestry; a liberal spirit; liberal arts or studies..
Connaturally :: Connaturally (adv.) By the act of nature; originally; from birth.
Secundine :: Secundine (n.) The afterbirth, or placenta and membranes; -- generally used in the plural..
Labor :: Labor (n.) To be in travail; to suffer the pangs of childbirth.
Renaissance :: Renaissance (n.) A new birth, or revival..
Midwife :: Midwife (n.) A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
True-born :: True-born (a.) Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman..
Ancientry :: Ancientry (n.) Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth.
Born :: Born (v. t.) Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar..
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