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womb |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Womb \Womb\, v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Womb \Womb\ (w[=oo]m), n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS wamb, womb; akin to D. wam belly, OS & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe, Icel. v["o]mb, Sw v[*a]mb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.] 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. (Anat.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: womb n : a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: {uterus}]
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