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adj. About to bring forth young; being in labor.

adj. Of or relating to giving birth.

adj. About to produce or come forth with something, such as an idea or a discovery.

adj. In labour; having recently given birth.

adj. About to create a new product, or float a new idea.

adj. Of, related to, or caused by childbirth

adj. Facilitating labour.

n. One who is in labour or has recently given birth.

n. A substance that facilitates labour.

adj. Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.

Bringing forth or about to bring forth young: sometimes, as in the quotation, extended to a more general use.

adj. of or relating to or giving birth

adj. giving birth

"No very definite custom or practice seems to be followed; the most common is, that several matrons preside as midwives in the lodge of the parturient, which is, especially in delayed cases, filled to suffocation with indifferently solicitous (?) relations and friends."

nascent   

fruitful    travailing