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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Berth \Berth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See {Birth}.] [Also written {birth}.] [1913 Webster] 1. (Naut.) (a) Convenient sea room. (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf. [1913 Webster] 2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." --Totten. [1913 Webster] 3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in. [1913 Webster] {Berth deck}, the deck next below the lower gun deck. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To give} (the land or any object) {a wide berth}, to keep at a distance from it. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Birth \Birth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[eth], gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[eth]r, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. [root]92. See 1st {Bear}, and cf. {Berth}.] 1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. [1913 Webster] 2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. [1913 Webster] Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. --Prescott. [1913 Webster] 3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. [1913 Webster] A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. "At her next birth." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. [1913 Webster] Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. [1913 Webster] {New birth} (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life. [1913 Webster] Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Birth \Birth\, n. See {Berth}. [Obs.] --De Foe. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: birth n 1: the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: {death}, {demise}, {dying}] 2: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: {birth}, {nativity}, {nascency}, {nascence}] [ant: {death}, {decease}, {expiry}] 3: the process of giving birth [syn: {parturition}, {birth}, {giving birth}, {birthing}] 4: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: {parentage}, {birth}] 5: a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births" v 1: cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn: {give birth}, {deliver}, {bear}, {birth}, {have}]