a place or station ; a good birth ; mine is the next birth. Kent. This word is used by seamen of all counties in the same sense ; to BIRTH a floor, to place or lay down a floor.
·noun ·see <<Berth>>. II. Birth ·noun The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
As soon as a child was born it was washed, and rubbed with salt (Ezek. 16:4), and then swathed with ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
·noun Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, ...
The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebr...
A ship must not be loaded above her birth-marks, for, says a maritime proverb, a master must know th...
The Sailor's Word-Book
He was in his birth-day suit, that is, stark naked. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose