DEFINITION
BIRTH:
• (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; --
generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
• (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble
extraction.
• (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or
position; inherited disposition or tendency.
• (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a
birth.
• (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal
or vegetable.
• (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
• (n.) See Berth.