Womb

Definitions

1. In female mammals, the organ in which the young are conceived and grow until birth; the uterus.
2. The abdomen or stomach.
   obsolete
3. The stomach of a person or creature.
   obsolete
4. A place where something is made or formed.
   figuratively
5. Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.

Equivalents

Examples

“I danced myself right out the womb / Is it strange to dance⟳ so soon?”

“And his hede, hym semed,was enamyled with asure, and his shuldyrs shone as the golde, and his wombe was lyke mayles of a merveylous hew[…].”

“The womb of earth the genial seed receives.”

“The shadows of the future hours rose dark and menacing from the womb of time [...]”

“The centre spike of gold Which burns deep in the blue-bell's womb.”

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