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To aborn with rich dress; to dress. I am caparisoned like a man. Shak.

A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

o place; to have upon or about one's person; to bear; as, to carry a wound; to carry an unborn child. If the ideas . . . were carried along with us in our minds. Locke.

. . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Dickens.

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two- wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak. Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair. Pope.

A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay.

l I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

One born in a Christian country or of Christian parents, and who has not definitely becomes an adherent of an opposing system.

ming the principles of the Christian religion. Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne. Sharp.

ogist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox.

One who is born or bred in a city; a citizen. [Obs.] Champan.

Stiff, stubborn, clayey, or tenacious; as, a cledgy soil. Halliwell.

Equally eternal. -- Co`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.

Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.

A staff by means of which a burden is borne by two persons on their shoulders.

Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. [Obs.] Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us. Sir M. Hale.

That which is born or produced with another.

Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.

Born with another; being of the same birth.