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An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.

A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.

A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. Smyth.

See Berth. [Obs.] De Foe.

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.

One of a series of berths or bed places in tiers.

A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.

n of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. -- n.

sed as the ship's hospital. -- Sick bed, the bed upon which a person lies sick. -- Sick berth, an apartment for the sick in a ship of war. -- Sick headache (Med.), a variety of headache attended with disorder of the stomach and nausea. -- Sick list, a list containing the names of the sick. -- Sick room, a room in…

from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arranged with apartments and berths for sleeping. -- Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

ould not be wedged in more. Shak. He 's just the sort of man to wedge himself into a snug berth. Mrs. J. H. Ewing.