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Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.

Pregnant; big (with young). The ewes great with young. Ps. lxxviii. 71.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.

With child; pregnant. [R.] Heavy artillery. (Mil.) (a) Guns of great weight or large caliber, esp. siege, garrison, and seacoast guns. (b) Troops which serve heavy guns. -- Heavy cavalry. See under Cavalry. -- Heavy fire (Mil.), a continuous or destructive cannonading, or discharge of small arms. -- Heavy metal (Mil…

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

The state of being pregnant or impregnated. [Obs.]

tructive hours they past. Pope. -- In*struct"ive*ly, adv. -- In*struct"ive*ness, n. The pregnant instructiveness of the Scripture. Boyle.

Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.]

land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. Negative pregnant (Law), a negation which implies an affirmation.

conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. Dantiel. And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt. Emerson.

The condition of being pregnant; the state of being with young.

thers. Called also crowned pigeon, goura, and Victoria pigeon. -- Queen regent, or Queen regnant, a queen reigning in her own right. -- Queen's Bench. See King's Bench. -- Queen's counsel, Queen's evidence. See King's counsel, King's evidence, under King. -- Queen's delight (Bot.), an American plant (Stillinqia syl…

Pregnant; with child. Shak. Quick grass. (Bot.) See Quitch grass. -- Quick match. See under Match. -- Quick vein (Mining), a vein of ore which is productive, not barren. -- Quick vinegar, vinegar made by allowing a weak solution of alcohol to trickle slowly over shavings or other porous material. -- Quick water, qu…

Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale.

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. Coleridge.

is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. E. Everett.

A murmuring or blowing sound; as, the uterine souffle heard over the pregnant uterus.

To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. If she must teem, Create her child of spleen. Shak.

Pregnant; prolific. [Obs.]