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Born to misfortune. Spenser.

Recently born. Shak.

Foreign; not native. [R.]

Born again.

Born of the sea; produced by the sea. "Neptune and his sea-born niece." Waller.

Born or produced by one's self.

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases. "The shard-borne beetle." Shak.

Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.

Born in slavery.

Stubborn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.

elding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule. "Bow, stubborn knees." Shak. "Stubborn attention and more than common application." Locke. "Stubborn Stoics." Swift. And I was young and full of ragerie [wantonness]…

by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate. Thou art suborned against his honor. Shak. Those who by despair suborn their death. Dryden.

The act of suborning; the crime of procuring a person to take such a false oath as constitutes perjury. Blackstone.

One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.

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

Born at the same birth.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future. Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb. Shak. See future sons, and daughters yet unborn. Pope.

Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.