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The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

ite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

d 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.

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.

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

powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

Travail; the pangs and efforts of childbirth. The queen's in labor, They say, in great extremity; and feared She'll with the labor end. Shak.

The discharge from the womb and vagina which follows childbirth.

The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement.

Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

se, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth.

Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitating any bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.] Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.

ce of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

Specifically, the throes or travail of childbirth. She bowed herself and travailed, for her pains came upon her. 1 Sam. iv. 19.