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I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Shak.

Any one of three species of Australian burrowing marsupials of the genus Phascolomys, especially the common species (P. ursinus). They are nocturnal in their habits, and feed mostly on roots.

Capacious. [Obs.] Shak.

To conceive in the womb. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide.

The womb. [Obs.] Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Jer. i. 5.

the Cæsars; imperial. Cæsarean section (Surg.), the operation of taking a child from the womb by cutting through the walls of the abdomen and uterus; -- so called because Julius Cæsar is reported to have been brought into the world by such an operation.

The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development.

To receive into the womb and begin to breed; to begin the formation of the embryo of. She hath also conceived a son in her old age. Luke i. 36.

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life. I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. Gen. iii. 16.

rine that a soul is specially created for each human being as soon as it is formed in the womb; -- opposed to traducianism.

utting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).

The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.

The membrane lining the inner surface of the uterus, or womb.

To sear; to dry up. [Obs.] Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.

To thrust out or eject; to expel; as, to exclude young animals from the womb or from eggs. Excluded middle. (logic) The name given to the third of the "three logical axioms," so-called, namely, to that one which is expressed by the formula: "Everything is either A or Not-A." no third state or condition being involved o…

The act of expelling or ejecting a fetus or an egg from the womb.