Word Meanings - CROSS-BIRTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any preternatural labor, in which the body of the child lies across the pelvis of the mother, so that the shoulder, arm, or trunk is the part first presented at the mouth of the uterus.

• CHILDSTUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• TRUNKPISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• Childishness
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• Laborant
  A chemist.
• Motherless
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• Mouthless
  Destitute of a mouth.
• Presentient
  Feeling or perceiving beforehand.
• Shoulder
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
• FIRSTCLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers wh
• TRUNKSTEAMER
  A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.
• Childlessness
  The state of being childless.
• Laboratories
  of Laboratory
• Motherliness
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• Mouth-made
  Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt.
• Presentific
  Making present.
• Shouldered
  of Shoulder
• FIRSTHAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• WHICHEVERWHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Childlike
  Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

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