Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having to do with or used during birth: a birthing counselor.
- n. The act of giving birth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See berthing.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or relating to birth.
- n. The act of giving birth.
- n. nautical Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
- n. the act or process of giving birth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process of giving birth
Examples
“I just think we lose sight sometimes of the fact that this [complications in birthing, that is] is nothing new, nothing that humans haven't faced even in the absence of hospitals for eons.”
“Without insurance, Vincent can't do the type of private practice midwifery she's become accustomed to and is forced to take a staff midwife position with an HMO, which she refers to as a birthing factory.”
“Note 19: The * mkole is a proto-Ruvu era term for a tree species important in birthing and female initiation religio-ritual ceremonies. back”
“It is thus intriguing to imagine how foundational knowledge in birthing may have informed the medicinal knowledge needed in potting and iron technologies. back”
“What's to do when a lady cannot afford to go interstate or even into another country (or does not speak the language of another country where home birthing is permitted, or does not have family or contacts or the wherewithall to set up a network in time for her birth).”
“My grandmother, herself the daughter of a high-ranking official, was terse and irritable, weighted by disappointment in birthing only girls.”
“The majority of this bill is stuff that looks very good indeed to midwives and people who are interested in birthing choice.”
Dru Blood - I believe in the inherent goodness of all beings: Midwifery in Texas
“There have been lots of changes in the way birthing is handled since 1973, and the reason everyone is using that year is because that’s the copywrite of the book.”
“They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing house.”
“Fri 07/16/10 1:44 PM in the book , while bella was burning in pain she recalled the birthing process maybe its what theyll use as her point of view, creepy if edward will show a bloody baby to bella though , this can be 2d in part 1”
'Breaking Dawn' producer talks plans for birth scene, 3-D | EW.com
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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But I like my gerunds
mourning the rumored demise of traditional grammar
upswelling, upwelling, drubbing, mourning, licking, quickening, awakening, beating, birthing, foretelling, meeting, softening and 3 more...
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