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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Womb

Womb (wo͞om), n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb; akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe, Icel. vömb, Sw. våmb, Dan. vom, Goth. wamba.] 1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. Wyclif (Luke xv. 16).

An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Shak.

2. (Anat.) The uterus. See Uterus.

3. The place where anything is generated or produced.

The womb of earth the genial seed receives. Dryden.

4. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. R. Browning.

Womb, v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obs.] Shak.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.