Word Meanings - CHILDBIRTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
Related words: (words related to CHILDBIRTH)
- CHILDSHIP
The state or relation of being a child. - FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - 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. - 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. - CHILDED
Furnished with a child. - CHILDBIRTH
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor. - LABORED
Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style. - LABOROUS
Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot. - 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, - FORTHCOMING
Ready or about to appear; making appearance. - CHILDISH
1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who - FORTHY
Therefore. Spenser. - CHILD STUDY
A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood. - LABORATORY
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the - FORTHWARD
Forward. Bp. Fisher. - FORTHRIGHTNESS
Straightforwardness; explicitness; directness. Dante's concise forthrightness of phrase. Hawthorne. - BRINGER
One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces. - CHILDCROWING
The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup. - TRAVAILOUS
Causing travail; laborious. Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. Wyclif. - 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. - 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. - 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, - UNLABORED
1. Not produced by labor or toil. "Unlabored harvests." Dryden. 2. Not cultivated; untitled; as, an unlabored field. 3. Not laboriously produced, or not evincing labor; as, an unlabored style or work. Tickell. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.