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   Berth , n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.] [Also written birth.]
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   (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.
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   An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. “He has a good berth.”
   Totten.
   
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   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.
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   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.
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   Birth , n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beorð, gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. burðr, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. √92. See 1st Bear, and cf. Berth.]
   The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
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   Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
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   Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications.
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   The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
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   A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name.
   Dryden.
   
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   The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. “At her next birth.” 
   Milton.
   
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   That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
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   Poets are far rarer births than kings.
   B. Jonson.
   
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   Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself.
   Addison.
   
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   Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
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   New birth (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life.
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   Syn. -- Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family.
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   Birth, n. See Berth. [Obs.]
   De Foe.
   
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