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Kindred; family; birth. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. We claim to be of high parage. Chaucer.

ors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage" Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. Milton.

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

Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. Born in the patrician file of society. Sir W. Scott. His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood. Addison.

The birth of nature. [R.] Coleridge.

ge which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth.

t. I have overheard a plot of death. Shak. O, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots and their last fatal periods! Addison.

Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

al time; adopted too soon; too early; untimely; as, a premature fall of snow; a premature birth; a premature opinion; premature decay.

Being or happening before birth.

reternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This vile and preternatural temper of mind. South.

Belonging to a first birth; bearing young for the first time.

Primogeniture. [Obs.] The primogenitive and due of birth. Shak.

The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.

Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc.

advantage; franchise. He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke.

To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milto…

A begetting, or birth. [R.]

The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth. Bouvier.