"watch-birth" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From watch + birth.",
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      "form": "watch-births",
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          "kind": "topical",
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          "name": "Obstetrics",
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            "Developmental biology",
            "Medicine",
            "Pregnancy",
            "Biology",
            "Healthcare",
            "Body",
            "Gynaecology",
            "Sciences",
            "Health",
            "All topics",
            "Female",
            "Fundamental",
            "Gender",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "Social sciences",
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "People",
          "orig": "en:People",
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            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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          "ref": "1641 [1578–84], “The Magnificence”, in Sylvester, Joshua, transl., Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translation of Semaines by Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, page 215:",
          "text": "This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,\nTh' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:\nThy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,\nUnto the PORCH may rich relation have:\nFor that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,\nRules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;\nAnd for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall\nAt Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A midwife."
      ],
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          "midwife",
          "midwife"
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        "(obsolete) A midwife."
      ],
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        "obsolete"
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  "word": "watch-birth"
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  "etymology_text": "From watch + birth.",
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        "en:Obstetrics",
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          "ref": "1641 [1578–84], “The Magnificence”, in Sylvester, Joshua, transl., Du Bartas His Diuine Weekes and Workes, translation of Semaines by Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, page 215:",
          "text": "This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it,\nTh' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit:\nThy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave,\nUnto the PORCH may rich relation have:\nFor that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes,\nRules Politike, and Private civill Sawes;\nAnd for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall\nAt Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.",
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        "A midwife."
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        "(obsolete) A midwife."
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