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One born of European parents in Asia.

one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country.

Ability to act or perform, whether inborn or cultivated; capacity for any natural function; especially, an original mental power or capacity for any of the well-known classes of mental activity; psychical or soul capacity; capacity for any of the leading kinds of soul activity, as knowledge, feeling, volition; intellec…

A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

as against an attack; to give protection or security, as by a fence. Vice is the more stubborn as well as the more dangerous evil, and therefore, in the first place, to be fenced against. Locke.

onstructed of two firebrands, and pitched upon the point of a spear; formerly in Scotland borne by a runner as a signal for the clan to take up arms. Sir W. Scott.

Firstborn. All the firstling males. Deut. xv. 19.

yed up. The ark no more now floats, but seems on ground. Milton. Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated. Dryden.

To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag. Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v. 7.

ent counsel for the matters. Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured Dryden. For he writes not for money, nor for praise. Denham.

Vocabulary. -- Fore wind, a favorable wind. [Obs.] Sailed on smooth seas, by fore winds borne. Sandys. -- Fore world, the antediluvian world. [R.] Southey.

Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits. "Domestic and foreign writers." Atterbury. Hail, foreign wonder! Whom certain these rough shades did never breed. Milton.

One of four children born at the same time.

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

Aborned with fringes. Shak.

A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

rned directly to the front; -- said of the figures of the stag, hart, buck, or hind, when borne, in this position, upon an escutcheon. (b) In a position expressing sudden fear or surprise; -- a term used in stag hunting to describe the manner of a stag when he first hears the hounds and gazes round in apprehension of s…

Of honorable birth or origin; highborn. [Obs.] The generous and gravest citizens. Shak.

Divination as to the destinies of one newly born; the act or art of casting nativities; astrology.