Berth \Berth\, n. [From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth.]

[Also written birth.]

1. (Naut.)
   (a) Convenient sea room.
   (b) A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
   (c) The place where a ship lies when she is at anchor, or at a wharf.

2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. ``He has a good berth.'' --Totten.

3. A place in a ship to sleep in; a long box or shelf on the side of a cabin or stateroom, or of a railway car, for sleeping in.

Berth deck, the deck next below the lower gun deck. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

To give (the land or any object) a wide berth, to keep at a distance from it.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Birth \Birth\ (b[~e]rth), n. [OE. burth, birth, AS. beor[edt], gebyrd, fr. beran to bear, bring forth; akin to D. geboorte, OHG. burt, giburt, G. geburt, Icel. bur[eth]r, Skr. bhrti bearing, supporting; cf. Ir. & Gael. beirthe born, brought forth. [root]92. See 1st Bear, and cf. Berth.]

1. The act or fact of coming into life, or of being born; -- generally applied to human beings; as, the birth of a son.

2. Lineage; extraction; descent; sometimes, high birth; noble extraction.

Elected without reference to birth, but solely for qualifications. --Prescott.

3. The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency.

A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. --Dryden.

4. The act of bringing forth; as, she had two children at a birth. ``At her next birth.'' --Milton.

5. That which is born; that which is produced, whether animal or vegetable.

Poets are far rarer births than kings. --B. Jonson.

Others hatch their eggs and tend the birth till it is able to shift for itself. --Addison.

6. Origin; beginning; as, the birth of an empire.

New birth (Theol.), regeneration, or the commencement of a religious life.

Syn: Parentage; extraction; lineage; race; family.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Birth \Birth\, n. See Berth. [Obs.]

--De Foe.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)