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.
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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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Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
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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 act if effacing; also, the result of the act.
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The condition of being oblique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence…
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The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
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The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
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The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.
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The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
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Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.
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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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The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.
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Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion.
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