Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Womb

Womb (wom) , noun

[Old English wombe, wambe, Anglo-Saxon wamb, womb; akin to Dutch wam belly, Old Saxon & Old High German wamba, German wamme, wampe, Icelandic vomb, Swedish våmb, Danish vom, Gothic wamba.]

1.
The belly; the abdomen. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
And he coveted to fill his woman of the cods that the hogs eat, and no man gave him. — Wyclif (Luke xv. 16)
An I had but a belly of any indifferency, I were simply the most active fellow in Europe. My womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. — Shakespeare
2.
(Anatomy) The uterus. See Uterus.
3.
The place where anything is generated or produced.
The womb of earth the genial seed receives. — Dryden
4.
Any cavity containing and enveloping anything.
The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. — R. Browning

Womb , transitive verb

To inclose in a womb, or as in a womb; to breed or hold in secret. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare