Word Meanings - MIDWIFE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

Related words: (words related to MIDWIFE)

• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• OBSTETRICIAN
  One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• OBSTETRIC; OBSTETRICAL
  Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art. Obstetrical toad , a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs,
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• OTHER
  andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. sq. 1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second
• OTHERNESS
  The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.
• OBSTETRICY
  Obstetrics. Dunglison.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• WOMEN
  pl. of Woman.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• OTHERGATES
  In another manner. He would have tickled you othergates. Shak.
• WOMANHOOD
  1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
• WOMANIZE
  To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
• OTHERWISE
  1. In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily. Chaucer. Thy father was a worthy prince, And merited, alas! a better fate; But Heaven thought otherwise. Addison. 2. In other respects. It is said, truly, that
• WOMANLIKE
  Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
• WOMANLESS
  Without a woman or women.
• OBSTETRICATION
  The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. Bp. Hall.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.