GESTATION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments). [Obs.]

2.
n.

The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.

3.
n.

Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.


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