Crossword clues for pregnant
pregnant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, n.
A pregnant woman. [R.]
--Dunglison.
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [F. prenant taking. Cf. Pregnable.]
Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open;
prompt. [Obs.] `` Pregnant to good pity.''
--Shak.
Pregnant \Preg"nant\, a. [L. praegnans, -antis; prae before + genere, gignere, to beget: cf. F. pr['e]gnant. See Gender, 2d Kin.]
Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth.
Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies. `` A pregnant argument.''
--Prynne. `` A pregnant brevity.''
--E. Everett.-
Full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.; as, a pregnant youth. [Obs.]
--Evelyn.Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
--Shak.Pregnant construction (Rhet.), one in which more is implied than is said; as, the beasts trembled forth from their dens, that is, came forth trembling with fright.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"convincing, weighty, pithy," late 14c., "cogent, convincing, compelling" (of evidence, an argument, etc.); sense of "full of meaning" is from c.1400. According to OED from Old French preignant, present participle of preindre "press, squeeze, stamp, crush," from earlier priembre, from Latin premere "to press" (see press (v.1)). But Watkins has it from Latin praehendere "to grasp, seize," and in Barnhart it is from Latin praegnans "with child," literally "before birth" and thus identical with pregnant (adj.1).
"with child," early 15c., from Latin praegnantem (nominative praegnans, originally praegnas) "with child," literally "before birth," probably from prae- "before" (see pre-) + root of gnasci "be born" (see genus).\n
\nRetained its status as a taboo word until c.1950; modern euphemisms include anticipating, enceinte, expecting, in a family way, in a delicate (or interesting) condition. Old English terms included mid-bearne, literally "with child;" bearn-eaca, literally "child-adding" or "child-increasing;" and geacnod "increased." Among c.1800 slang terms for "pregnant" was poisoned (in reference to the swelling).
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context not comparable English) Carrying developing offspring within the body. 2 (context comparable English) Having numerous possibility or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc. 3 (context now poetic English) fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground etc.). 4 (context obsolete English) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt. n. A pregnant woman.
WordNet
adj. carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life [ant: nonpregnant]
rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning" [syn: meaning(a), significant]
filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" [syn: fraught(p)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "pregnant".
Have developed a routine in which he is a Tex-Mex astronaut coming home after eleven months on the Moon, she pregnant.
They went inside, where they met Evan and his wife, Anna, who was obviously and joyfully pregnant with their first child, and the Ballenger brothers, Calhoun and Justin, with their wives Abby and Shelby, all headed toward the front door together.
Charity, counting out change to a very pregnant young woman who had bought three pairs of bootees, stretched her ears, anxious not to miss a word.
Their presence, and the impending motherhood condition of three ,of them, had been a source of some confusion to Jean-Pierre de la Chevaux, who had to be assured by Father Jacques dePresseps that they were -not, as he assumed, pregnant nuns.
Jacobson cites a case of vaginal lithotomy in a patient six and a half months pregnant, with normal delivery at full term.
That was two months ago, just before the first of the pregnant mares reached her time.
When it had finally run out, Melia had been pregnant with his child, and deeming this the moment to make his approach to her father, the young man had spent the last of his slender stock of guineas on the hire of a post chaise to take them to her home in Bodmin.
A married woman has reason to suspect that she may have conceived, when, at the proper time, she fails to menstruate, especially when she knows that she is liable to become pregnant.
In a London discussion there was mentioned the case of a healthy woman of fifty who never was pregnant, and whose menstruation had ceased two years previously, but who for twelve months had menstruated regularly from the nipples, the hemorrhage being so profuse as to require constant change of napkins.
Carn describes a case of a child who menstruated at two, became pregnant at eight, and lived to an advanced age.
There were exhausted old people, sitting or sprawled despairing by the road, pregnant women who would have no midwifery ward, children, some without parents or adults, and hospital patients with surgical appliances and trailing tubes.
Celia had suffered some unease on first learning that it was intended for pregnant women, to be taken early in their pregnancy when nausea and morning sickness were most prevalent onditions which Montayne would banish.
Looking at her husband fondly, she thought: A lesser man would have reminded her of their argument in the hotel in San Francisco, when Andrew had refused to concede his doubts about Montayne, or the use of any drug by pregnant women.
In a few more years, that will be equally true of Montayne, at which point pregnant women will again take anything their doctors prescribe.
While the full scientific evidence is not yet in, and may take years to assemble, it now appears certain that the drug Montayne was responsible for damage to fetuses in wombs of pregnant women -in a very small section of the total population, and in circumstances impossible to foresee during the extensive testing of that drug, originally in France, later in other countries, and before its official approval by FDA for use in the United States.