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born (bôrn)
transitive verb, intransitive verb
adjective
- brought into life or being
- by birth: used in hyphenated compounds French-born
- having certain qualities or abilities innately, as if from birth; natural a born athlete
- being as specified from birth nobly born
- Informal, Dialectal since birth in all my born days
Born (bôrn)
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O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparklingThames: Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rifeö Fly hence, our contact fear!
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head, Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews, Not to be born is the best for man; The second-best is a formal order, The dance's pattern; dance while you can.
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