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To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun. I proceeded forth and came from God. John viii. 42. It proceeds from policy, not love. Shak.

That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

or the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak. Throughout the host proclaim A solemn council forthwith to be held. Milton.

Lying on the ground, but without putting forth roots; trailing; prostrate; as, a procumbent stem.

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court. Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 21. Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift.

One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. -- Pro*du"ci*ble*ness, n.

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent. [Obs.] "Profulgent in preciousness." Chaucer.

Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth. [Obs.] Holland.

The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

peace; to offer proposals for erecting a building; to make proposals of marriage. "To put forth proposals for a book." Macaulay.

To set forth. [Obs.] That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up. Chapman.

The act or state of bursting forth; a bursting out. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief." Coleridge.

To hold out; to stretch forth. [Obs.] With his protended lance he makes defence. Dryden .

To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thomson.

Forthcoming; issuing. [Rare]

To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate. Obey his voice, provoke him n…