BIRTH, noun berth. [Latin partus, the participle of pario, to bear.] 1. The act of coming into life, or of being born. Except in poetry, it is generally applied to human beings; as the birth of a son. 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; as, Grecian birth It is used of high or low extraction; but is often used by way of distinction for a descent from noble or honorable parents and ancestors; as a man of birth 3. The condition in which a person is born. A foe by birth to Troy. 4. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. 5. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth 6. In a theological sense, regeneration is called the new birth 7. Origin; beginning; as the birth of an empire. BIRTH, BERTH, noun A station in which a ship rider. [See Berth.]
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