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PREGNANT a. 5 definitions

important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. " A pregnant argument." Prynne. " A pregnant brevity." E. Everett.

PREGNANTLY adv. 2 definitions

In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.

IMPREGNANT a. 2 definitions

Not pregnant; unfertilized or infertile. [R.]

To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively. [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

A female infant. [Obs.] A boy or a child, I wonder Shak. To be with child, to be pregnant. -- Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.

To have an embryo or fetus formed in the womb; to breed; to become pregnant. A virgin shall conceive, and bear a son. Isa. vii. 14.

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. Shak.

Pregnant; with child.

With child; pregnant. See Enceinte. [Obs.]

ay, and dine with some other plain country gentlefolks" Thackeray. -- In the family way, pregnant. [Colloq.]

eth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

Impregnated; made pregnant. [Obs.] Ilia, the fair, . . . full of Mars. Dryden. At full, when full or complete. Shak. -- Full age (Law) the age at which one attains full personal rights; majority; -- in England and the United States the age of 21 years. Abbott. -- Full and by (Naut.), sailing closehauled, having all t…

Bearing within; laden; burdened; pregnant. [R.] "Clouds gestant with heat." Mrs. Browning.

To be with young; to be pregnant; to gestate. The fruit she goes with, I pray for heartily, that it may find Good time, and live. Shak.

Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.

Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.

Pregnant; big (with young). The ewes great with young. Ps. lxxviii. 71.

GREAT-BELLIED a.

Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.