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Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.

Pertaining to Copernicus, a Prussian by birth (b. 1473, d. 1543), who taught the world the solar system now received, called the Copernican system.

Wearing, or entitled to wear, a coronet; of noble birth or rank.

(as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of countries cannot change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm An…

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill. The world-wide custom of the couvade, where at childbirth the husband undergoes medical treatment, in many cases being put to bed for days. Tylor.

tence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.

poem is the work of the poet; poesy is his skill or craft of making. B. Jonson. Since the birth of time, throughout all ages and nations, Has the craft of the smith been held in repute. Longfellow.

Without a crest or escutcheon; of low birth. "Crestless yeomen." Shak.

ich, according to the laws of heraldry, they where debruised in token of his illegitimate birth. Macaulay.

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of. She was delivered safe and soon. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.

The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health, etc. -- Dem`o*graph"ic, a.

by favor to all or a part of the rights of citizenship, where he did not possess them by birth; an adopted or naturalized citizen.

To act beneath one-s rank, place, birth, or character; to degenerate. [R.] You are a fool granted; therefore your issues, being foolish, do not derogate. Shak. Would Charles X. derogate from his ancestors Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line Hazlitt.

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction. Dryden.

to show the contrary of; to disprove. Yet can they never Toss into air the freedom of my birth, Or disavow my blood Plantagenet's. Ford.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

of retiring to rest; time of repose. Cavendish. At the downlying, at the travail in childbirth. [Scot.]

To give birth to; as, to drop a lamb.

begin to compute their time or dates; as, the emergent year of Christendom is that of the birth of Christ; the emergent year of the United States is that of the declaration of their independence. -- E*mer"gent*ly, adv. -- E*mer"gent*ness, n. [R.]