Born

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• Fool-born

  ·adj Begotten by a fool. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sea-born

  ·adj Born at sea. II. Sea-born ·adj Born of the sea; produced by the sea. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Sigh-born

  ·adj Sorrowful; mournful. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• True-born

  ·adj Of genuine birth; having a right by birth to any title; as, a true-born Englishman. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Well-born

  ·adj Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• First-born

  Sons enjoyed certain special privileges (Deut. 21:17; Gen. 25:23, 31, 34; 49:3; 1 Chr. 5:1; Heb. 12:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• born days

  One's life-time ever since one was born; a vulgar expression used in various parts of the country. I...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• hell-born babe

  A lewd graceless youth, one naturally of a wicked disposition. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• First-born, Redemption of

  From the beginning the office of the priesthood in each family belonged to the eldest son. But when ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• First-born, Sanctification of the

  A peculiar sanctity was attached to the first-born both of man and of cattle. God claimed that the f...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  To inherit a fortune by birth. Mr. Hood, in his History of Miss Kilmansegg, says She was one of th...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born with a silver spoon in his mouth

  Said of a person who, by birth or connection, has all the usual obstacles to advancement cleared awa...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• not born in the woods to be scared by an owl

  Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• born under a threepenny halfpenny planet, never to be worth a groat

  Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose