Womb

(wo͞om), n. [A-S. wamb, womb, O. Sax. & O. H. Ger. wamba, O. Fries. wamme, D. wam, Goth. vamba, Icel. vömb, Sw. våmb, Dan. vom, M. H. Ger. wambe, wamme, Prov. Ger. wampe, wamme.]

1Sense 1. The belly; the abdomen. [Obs.]

And he coveted to fill his womb of the cods that the hogs did eat. Luke xv. 16, Wycliffe's Trans.

Fal. Had I but a belly of any indifference, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Shak.

2Sense 2. (Anat.) The uterus of a female; that part where the young of an animal is conceived and nourished till its birth.

3Sense 3. The place where any thing is generated or produced.

The womb of earth the genial seed receives. Dryden.

4Sense 4. Any cavity containing and enveloping any thing.

(wo͞om), v. t. To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed in secret. [Obs.] Shak.