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   happy event
         n 1: the live birth of a child [syn: {blessed event}, {happy
               event}]

English Dictionary: have a bun in the oven by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
have a bun in the oven
v
  1. be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child"
    Synonym(s): have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavy weapon
n
  1. large but transportable armament [syn: artillery, {heavy weapon}, gun, ordnance]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
heavy whipping cream
n
  1. cream with a fat content of 48% or more [syn: {double creme}, heavy whipping cream]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypopnea
n
  1. slow or shallow breathing
    Antonym(s): hyperpnea
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Happy \Hap"py\, a. [Compar. {Happier}; superl. {Happiest}.]
      [From {Hap} chance.]
      1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate;
            successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy
            expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen.
  
                     Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments
                     than the causes of them.                     --Boyle.
  
      2. Experiencing the effect of favorable fortune; having the
            feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of
            enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace,
            tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous; as, happy hours,
            happy thoughts.
  
                     Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord. --Ps.
                                                                              cxliv. 15.
  
                     The learned is happy Nature to explore, The fool is
                     happy that he knows no more.               --Pope.
  
      3. Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
  
                     One gentleman is happy at a reply, another excels in
                     a in a rejoinder.                              --Swift.
  
      {Happy family}, a collection of animals of different and
            hostile propensities living peaceably together in one
            cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons
            who are in fact mutually repugnant.
  
      {Happy-go-lucky}, trusting to hap or luck; improvident;
            easy-going. [bd]Happy-go-lucky carelessness.[b8] --W.
            Black.
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