1. (n.) The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

2. (n.) Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

3. (n.) The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

4. (n.) The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth.

5. (n.) That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

6. (n.) Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

7. (n.) See Berth.

Altmann theory DNA De Vries theory Galtonian theory Mendelianism Mendelism RNA Verworn theory Weismann theory Weismannism Wiesner theory abiogenesis abortion accouchement affiliation allele allelomorph ancestry animal spirits animate existence animation apparentation archigenesis aristocracy aristocraticalness babyhood bear bearing beget beginning beginnings being alive biogenesis birth throes birthing blastogenesis blessed event blood bloodline blue blood branch breed bring to birth character childbearing childbed childbirth childhood chromatid chromatin chromosome commencement common ancestry confinement consanguinity cradle creation dawn dawning delivery derivation descent determinant determiner development diathesis digenesis direct line distaff side distinction emergence endowment engender epigenesis eugenics eumerogenesis existence extraction factor family father female line filiation freshman year gene generation genesiology genesis genetic code genetics genteelness gentility give birth to giving birth hatching having a baby having life hereditability heredity heritability heritage heterogenesis histogenesis homogenesis honorable descent house immortality inborn capacity inception inchoation incipience incipiency incunabula infancy inheritability inheritance isogenesis labor life lifetime line line of descent lineage liveliness living long life longevity male line matrocliny merogenesis metagenesis miscarriage monogenesis mother multiparity nascence nascency nativity nobility noble birth nobleness onset opening origin origination orthogenesis outset outstart pangenesis parentage parthenogenesis parturition patrocliny pharmacogenetics phylum pregnancy procreate procreation quality race rank recessive character replication royalty seed sept side sire slip spear side spindle side spontaneous generation spriteliness start stem stirps stock strain succession sword side the Nativity the stork travail viability vitality vivacity youth