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Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

Having all the toes turned forward, as the colies.

To produce again. Especially:

One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.),

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

Reproductive.

A salmon in its second year. [Prov. Eng.]

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.

The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

eny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

Produced by spontaneous generation.

Prodigal expense for food. [Obs.] Bailey.

Producing miscarriage. -- n.

The immature product of an untimely birth.

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. [R.]

Producing abrasion. Ure.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.