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- English Word Birred Definition of Birr
- English Word Birring Definition of Birr
- English Word Birrus Definition A coarse kind of thick woolen cloth, worn by the poor in the Middle Ages; also, a woolen cap or hood worn over the shoulders or over the head.
- English Word Birse Definition A bristle or bristles.
- English Word Birt Definition A fish of the turbot kind; the brill.
- English Word Birth Definition The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.
- English Word Birth Definition Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.
- English Word Birth Definition The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.
- English Word Birth Definition The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.
- English Word Birth Definition That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.
- English Word Birth Definition Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.
- English Word Birth Definition See Berth.
- English Word Birthday Definition The day in which any person is born; day of origin or commencement.
- English Word Birthday Definition The day of the month in which a person was born, in whatever succeeding year it may recur; the anniversary of one's birth.
- English Word Birthday Definition Of or pertaining to the day of birth, or its anniversary; as, birthday gifts or festivities.
- English Word Birthdom Definition The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
- English Word Birthing Definition Anything added to raise the sides of a ship.
- English Word Birthless Definition Of mean extraction.
- English Word Birthmark Definition Some peculiar mark or blemish on the body at birth.
- English Word Birthnight Definition The night in which a person is born; the anniversary of that night in succeeding years.
- English Word Birthplace Definition The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.
- English Word Birthright Definition 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.
- English Word Birthroot Definition An herbaceous plant (Trillium erectum), and its astringent rootstock, which is said to have medicinal properties.
- English Word Birthwort Definition A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.
- English Word Bis Definition Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
- English Word Bis- Definition A form of Bi-, sometimes used before s, c, or a vowel.
- English Word Bisa antelope Definition See Oryx.
- English Word Bisaccate Definition Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.
- English Word Biscayan Definition Of or pertaining to Biscay in Spain.
- English Word Biscayan Definition A native or inhabitant of Biscay.