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Birthing

Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.

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Accouchement 76% connected

Delivery in childbed

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Brooding 76% connected

of Brood

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Calving 76% connected

of Calve

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Childbearing 76% connected

The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition.

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Childbed 76% connected

The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.

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Childbirth 76% connected

The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor.

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Confinement 76% connected

Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

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Farrow 76% connected

A little of pigs.

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Farrowing 76% connected

of Farfow

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Hatch 76% connected

To cross with lines in a peculiar manner in drawing and engraving. See Hatching.

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Hatching 76% connected

of Hatch

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Incubation 76% connected

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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Labor 76% connected

Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard, muscular effort di…

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Labour 76% connected

productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

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Laying 76% connected

of Lay

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Lying-in 76% connected

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

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Parturiency 76% connected

Parturition.

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Travail 76% connected

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.

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Containing whole 1

Reproduction 70% connected

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced

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Birth 92% connected

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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Parturition 92% connected

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

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