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Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. Prescott.

melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.

fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (a) To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view. (b) To hasten; to promote; to forward. (c) To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments. -- To bring home. (a) To bring to one's house. (b) To prove conclusively; as, to bring home a charge o…

r of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.

To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift.

A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy. "The buskined stage." Milton.

Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; probably referring to the battle in which the soldiers who sprang from the dr…

A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam. Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.

Of the nature of cant; affected; vulgar. To introduce and multiply cant words in the most ruinous corruption in any language. Swift.

questions and receiving answers, according to the ancient manner of teaching. Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing. Addison.

ndition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

China; -- an old name for the Celestial Empire, said have been introduced by Marco Polo and to be a corruption of the Tartar name for North China (Khitai, the country of the Khitans.) Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. Tennyson.

instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine. Eustachian catheter. See under Eustachian. -- Prostatic catheter, one adapted for passing an enlarged prostate.

The operation of introducing a catheter.

To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. Sir W. Scott.

ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf. The clod Where once their sultan's horse has trod. Swift.

fore a legislative body. It is similar in effect to the previous question. It was first introduced into the British House of Commons in 1882. The French word clôture was originally applied to this proceeding.

To be introduced into society; as, she came out two seasons ago.

t of committing, doing, or performing; the act of perpetrating. Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness. South.