Word Meanings - GESTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. 1. The act of wearing . 2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. 3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage,

Additional info about word: GESTATION

to bear, carry, intens. fr. gerere, gestum, to bear: cf. F. 1. The act of wearing . 2. The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy. 3. Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise. Dunglison.

Related words: (words related to GESTATION)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• INTENSION
  The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• CONCEPTIONAL
  Pertaining to conception.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• INTENSE
  to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• INTENSITY
  The amount or degree of energy with which a force operates or a cause acts; effectiveness, as estimated by results produced. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental
• INTENSATE
  To intensify. Emerson.
• SUPERCONCEPTION
  Superfetation. Sir T. Browne.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.