birthplace (berthplas)

The place of one's birth; the town, city, or country where a person is born; more generally, place of origin. birth-rate (berth'rāt), n. The proportion of births to the number of inhabitants of a town, district, country, etc., generally stated as so many per you sand of the population. An increase in prosperity, as measured by the birth rate, is accompanied by a decrease in the ratio of boy births, and vice vers a. Pop. Sci . Mo., XXVI. 327. IMG:content-2100.png:[blocks in formation] For Titan (as ye all acknowledge must) Was Saturnes elder brother by birthright . Spenser, F. Q., VII. vi. 27. We were very nearly dead, and my idea of happine was an English beefsteak and a bottle of pale ale; for such a luxury I would most willingly have sold my birthright at that hungry moment. Sir S. W. Baker , Heart of Africa, p. 264.