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One who gets, gains, obtains, acquires, begets, or procreates.

Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.

To generate or produce within; to begete; to engener; to occasion; to cause. Mede. Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. Sir M. Hale.

To beget. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother. Children, obey your parents in the Lord. Eph. vi. 1.

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

Having the power to beget; generative. Sir M. Hale.

One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race. [R.] Landor.

The act of begetting; propagation. [R.]

A begetting, or birth. [R.]

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

stence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation.

censure. What if thy son Prove disobedient, and, reproved, retort, "Wherefore didst thou beget me" Milton.

as a refrain. Which, if should repeat again, would turn my answers into responsories, and beget another liturgy. Milton.

Begetting young by retrocopulation.

To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially of stallions.

characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.