The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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To wait for; to await.
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To wait for; to await.
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Delivery in childbed
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of Brood
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of Calve
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The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.
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The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
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The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…
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The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
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A little of pigs.
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of Farfow
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To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.
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of Hatch
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A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
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Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…
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productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"
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of Lay
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The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
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Parturition.
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The state of being renascent.
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
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The act of altering or making different.
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of Begin
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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…
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The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
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One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.
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Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
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Family relationship.
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The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion,…
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In general, that which is set off, from, before, or against, something
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A setting out, starting, or beginning.
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To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.
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The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
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To leap; to jump.
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One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To bring forth a calf.
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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.
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A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.
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The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a flui…
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To wait for; to await.
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A little of pigs.
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A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
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The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidae); a colt; a filly.
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A young cat.
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The young of the sheep.
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A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
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A piggin.
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A young dog; a puppy.
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Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.
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One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of.
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The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…
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The time that life continues.
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The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
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To support or sustain; to hold up.
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Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
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To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…
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of Have
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State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.
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The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
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Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…
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The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.
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The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
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The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
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