Part 1141

<blockquote>This is my <b>birthday</b>; as this very day Was Cassius born. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Birthday</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"day`</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; <as>as, <ex>birthday</ex> gifts or festivities</as>.</def>

<h1>Birthdom</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"dom</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Birth</ets> + <ets>-dom</ets>.]</ety> <def>The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Birthing</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.</def>

<i>Bailey.</i>

<h1>Birthless</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of mean extraction.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Birthmark</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"mark`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.</def>

<blockquote>Most part of this noble lineage carried upon their body for a natural <b>birthmark</b>, . . . a snake. <i>Sir T. North.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Birthnight</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"night`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.</def>

<blockquote>The angelic song in Bethlehem field, On thy <b>birthnight</b>, that sung thee Savior born. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Birthplace</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"place`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.</def> "The <i>birthplace</i> of valor."

<i>Burns.</i>

<h1>Birthright</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"right`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.</def>

<blockquote>Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his <b>birthright</b>. <i>Heb. xii. 16.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Birthroot</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"root`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An herbaceous plant (<spn>Trillium erectum</spn>), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.</def>

<h1>Birthwort</h1> <Xpage=148>

<hw>Birth"wort`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A genus of herbs and shrubs (<spn>Aristolochia</spn>), reputed to have medicinal properties.</def>