Birth

1. n. See Berth.
2. n. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; — generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
3. n. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
4. n. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
5. n. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
6. n. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
7. n. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.