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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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

Womb \Womb\ (w[=oo]m), n. [OE. wombe, wambe, AS. wamb, womb;
   akin to D. wam belly, OS. & OHG. wamba, G. wamme, wampe,
   Icel. v["o]mb, Sw. v[*a]mb, 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.

Source : WordNet®

womb
     n : a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females;
         contains the developing fetus [syn: {uterus}]
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