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									   The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son. | 
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									| Birth | 
									   Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction. | 
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									| Birth | 
									   The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. | 
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									   The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. | 
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									| Birth | 
									   That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable. | 
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									   Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire. | 
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									| Birth | 
									   See Berth. | 
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									   A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T, or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger, or in ink, etc., or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. | 
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									   Church lands. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A line drawn across or through another line. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course. | 
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									| Cross | 
									   A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. | 
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