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

Generating; producing; productive; fruitful; assisting in procreation. [R.] "His pendent bed and procreant cradle." Shak.

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

A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster. B. Jonson.

To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milto…

Production. [Obs.]

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods.

roducer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

e of the free, or nearly free, segments of a tapeworm. It contains both male and female reproductive organs, and is capable of a brief independent existence.

The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.

A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

on in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade. Writ of protection. (Law) (a) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial w…

Converting proteid or albuminous matter into soluble and diffusible products, as peptones. " The proteolytic ferment of the pancreas." Foster.