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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] Chaucer. And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. Wyclif (Luke xv. 16). An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Shak.

2. The uterus. See Uterus.

3. The place where anything is generated or produced. The womb of earth the genial seed receives. Dryden.

4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything. The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. R. Browning.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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