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Webster 1913 Edition
Womb
Womb
(woōm)
, Noun.
[OE.
wombe
, wambe
, AS. wamb
, womb
; akin to D. wam
belly, OS. & OHG. wamba
, G. wamme
, wampe
, Icel. vömb
, Sw. våmb
, 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. Shakespeare
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
Which burns deep in the bluebell’s
womb
. R. Browning.
Womb
,Verb.
T.
To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Womb
WOMB
,Noun.
1.
The uterus or matrix of a female; that part where the young of an animal is conceived and nourished till its birth.2.
The place where any thing is produced.The womb of earth the genial seed receives.
3.
Any large or deep cavity.Womb of the morning, in Scripture, the clouds, which distill dew; supposed to be emblematic of the church bringing forth multitudes to Christ. Psalm 110.
WOMB
,Verb.
T.