Middle English word senses marked with topical category "Pregnancy"
Parent categories: Body, Gynaecology, Female, Medicine, Gender, Biology, Healthcare, Psychology, Sociology, Sciences, Health, Social sciences, Society
Total 36 word senses
- bareyne (Adjective) infertile, sterile (unable to give birth)
- bareynnesse (Noun) infertility, sterility (inability to give birth)
- bareynte (Noun) infertility, sterility (inability to give birth)
- barneschen (Verb) To develop a visible pregnancy.
- breden (Verb) To create; to engender or produce:; To bear; to give birth.
- child bed (Noun) childbed
- childberyng (Noun) Birth; the result of pregnancy.
- childing (Noun) childbirth
- concepcioun (Noun) conception (beginning of pregnancy)
- concepcioun (Noun) pregnancy, birth
- concepcioun (Noun) The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- conceyven (Verb) To become pregnant; to conceive.
- conceyvynge (Noun) conception (beginning of pregnancy)
- enen (Verb) To give birth; to yean.
- farowen (Verb) To give birth to piglets; to farrow.
- folen (Verb) To foal; to give birth or reproduce.
- gronen (Verb) To pass away; to suffer from death.
- hacchen (Noun) To hatch; to give birth or lay eggs.
- haven (Verb) to get, acquire, or obtain:; to have (a child); to give birth
- impregnacioun (Noun) impregnation
- maris (Noun) womb, uterus
- matere (Noun) One of a human body's liquids or fluids; a biofluid:; Partially digested food while sitting in the stomach.
- matere (Noun) A twig or bough; a portion of a plant or tree.
- matrice (Noun) womb, uterus
- moder (Noun) A mother; the female direct ancestor of someone or some creature.
- moder (Noun) The indirect female ancestor of someone or some creature.
- moder (Noun) A woman who performs the duties of a mother; a female caretaker or guardian.
- moder (Noun) A woman who heads a female monastic community; an abbess.
- norischen (Verb) To give birth; to reproduce or create offspring.
- norisshyng (Noun) Child-raising; the education and preparation of young for the world (usually referring to humans)
- secunde (Adjective) Non-primary; less important, noticeable or large.
- secunde (Noun) The amniotic sac or afterbirth; that which protects a embryo or fetus.
- secunde (Noun) A unit of time equal to a sixtieth of a (horological) minute.
- temen (Verb) To take control of, master, subdue.
- whelpen (Verb) To give birth; to bear a litter or whelp.
- whelpynge (Noun) The process of exiting the womb.
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