rare. [f. BIRTH sb.1: the ME. vb. may be birthen.] intr. To have birth, be born.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 1471. He wroȝten and fiȝt, Queðer here sulde birðen bi-foren.
1865. J. H. Stirling, Secret Hegel, I. 147. It is difficult to perceive how I am related to it, how I birth from it, or decease into it.