watch-birth

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A midwife. obsolete
    — This Pattern pleas'd thee ſo, th' haſt fram'd by it, Th' eternall Watch-births of thy ſacred Wit: Thy pithy Book of Proverbs richly-grave, Unto the PORCH may rich relation have: For that it gives us Oeconomike Lawes, Rules Politike, and Private civill Sawes; And for (the moſt) thoſe Leſſons generall At Humane matters ayme the moſt of all.

词形变化

watch-births plural

词源

From watch + birth.
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