[f. STILL a. + BIRTH, after STILL-BORN a.] Birth of a still-born child; an instance of this. Also fig.
1785. Cowper, Lett. to J. Newton, 25 June. Dr. Johnson laughs at Savage for charging the still-birth of a poem of his upon the bookseller’s delay.
1872. Morley, Voltaire, i. 6. None of it was ever the dreary still-birth of a mind of hearsays.
1889. A. Newsholme, Elem. Vital Statistics, 61. Still-births are not registered in England.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 980. In other animals still-birth was a constant feature.
