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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.

null or void. Blackstone. Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. -- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv.

Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. Pritchard.

The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey. His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller. Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.…