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Race; generation; birth. Of mortal seed they were not held. Waller. Seed bag (Artesian well), a packing to prevent percolation of water down the bore hole. It consists of a bag encircling the tubing and filled with flax seed, which swells when wet and fills the space between the tubing and the sides of the hole. -- Se…

nfluences. All the several ills that visit earth, Brought forth by night, with a sinister birth. B. Jonson.

A kind of false birth, fabled to be produced by Dutch women from sitting over their stoves; also, an abortion, in a figurative sense; an abortive scheme. Fruits of dull heat, and sooterkins of wit. Pope.

concern; to interest. (b) To value; to esteem. "We highly esteem and stand much upon our birth." Ray. (c) To insist on; to attach much importance to; as, to stand upon security; to stand upon ceremony. (d) To attack; to assault. [A Hebraism] "So I stood upon him, and slew him." 2 Sam. i. 10. -- To stand with, to be c…

Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden.

To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

etus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation. In then became a superfetation upon, and not an ingredient in, t…

treme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton.

h, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. Fuller.

To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.

Born three together; being one of three born at the same birth; also, threefold. E. Phillip

One of tree children born at the same birth. Wright.

Three children or offspring born at one birth.

; a pompous exhibition; a stately show or pageant. [Obs.] Our daughter, In honor of whose birth these triumphs are, Sits here, like beauty's child. Shak.

Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman.

Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed. His dire attempt, which, nigh the birth Now rolling, boils in his tumultuous breast. Milton.

Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister.

Born at the same birth.

One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.