| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, blood, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 2. The act or process of bringing forth young: accouchement, birthing, childbearing, childbirth, delivery, labor, lying-in, parturition, travail. See START. 3. The initial stage of a developmental process: beginning, commencement, dawn, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, spring, start. See START. 4. Noble rank or status by birth: blood, blue blood, nobility, noblesse. See KIN, OVER. | | VERB: | Chiefly Regional. To give birth to: bear, bring forth, deliver, have. Idioms: be brought abed (or to bed) of. See RICH.
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