n. [ From the root of bear to produce, like birth nativity. See Birth. ] [ Also written birth. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. “He has a good berth.” Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
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. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Berthed p. pr. & vb. n. Berthing. ]1. To give an anchorage to, or a place to lie at; to place in a berth; as, she was berthed stem to stern with the Adelaide. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To allot or furnish berths to, on shipboard; as, to berth a ship's company. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ After Alphonse Bertillon, French anthropologist. ] A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
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