"Afterbirth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... — N. sequence, coming after; going after &c (following) 281; consecution, succession; posteriority &c 117. continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme^. secondariness^; subordinancy &c (inferiority) 34. afterbirth, afterburden^; placenta, secundines [Med.]. V. succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into the shoes of; alternate. place after, suffix, append. Adj. succeeding &c; v.; sequent^; subsequent, consequent, sequacious^, proximate, next; consecutive &c ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... position with the upper portion of the body slightly raised. The blian blows upon a cupful of water which the woman drinks in order to make delivery easy. The umbilical cord is cut with a knife or a sharp piece of ironwood, and the afterbirth is buried. Death in labor is not unknown, and twins are born occasionally. The mother is confined for a week, and she is forbidden to eat pork, eggs, new rice, cocoanut oil, or any acid substance. She may partake of ordinary rice, lombok (red pepper), ...
— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz
... that of plighting hands when the heart is estranged! Never, never let the placable and compassionate spirit be seduced into a union to which the affections are averse. Let it not confide in the afterbirth of love. Such a union is the direst cruelty even to the object who is ...
— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown |
