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Word Meanings - CROSS-BIRTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any preternatural labor, in whiche the boly of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

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  • CHILDSHIP
    The state or relation of being a child.
  • TRUNKED
    Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
  • CHILDISHNESS
    The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
  • LABOR-SAVING
    Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
  • FIRST
    Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
  • PRETERNATURALITY
    Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
  • LABORIOUS
    1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
  • SHOULDER
    The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
  • CHILDED
    Furnished with a child.
  • SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
    Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
  • CHILDBIRTH
    The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • LABORED
    Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
  • LABOR
    The pitching or tossing of a vessel which results in the straining of timbers and rigging. 7. Etym: (more info) 1. Physical toil or bodily exertion, especially when fatiguing, irksome, or unavoidable, in distinction from sportive exercise; hard,
  • LABOROUS
    Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • TRUNKFUL
    As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
  • MOTHER-OF-PEARL
    The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • TRUNK PISTON
    In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
  • GODCHILD
    One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • OVERLABOR
    1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
  • COLABORER
    One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
  • HUMP-SHOULDERED
    Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
  • ELABORATION
    The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,

 

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