Dictionary entry

Birthright

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Birth″right′ (�), n. Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

Lest there be any... profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Heb. xii. 16.