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Webster 1913 Edition
Gestation
Ges-ta′tion
,Noun.
1.
The act of wearing (clothes or ornaments).
[Obs.]
2.
The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.
3.
Exercise in which one is borne or carried, as on horseback, or in a carriage, without the exertion of his own powers; passive exercise.
Dunglison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Gestation
GESTA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of carrying young in the womb from conception to delivery; pregnancy.2.
The act of wearing, as clothes or ornaments.3.
The act of carrying sick persons in carriages, as a salutary exercise, by which fevers have often been cured.