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An air-tight compartment in which vapor may be generated to destroy germs or insects; esp., the apparatus used to destroy San José scale on nursery stock, with hydrocyanic acid vapor.

hat stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.

A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.

Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Capable of being generated or produced. Bentley.

That which generates. Glanvill.

That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

That which generates; the point, or the mathematical magnitude, which, by its motion, generates another magnitude, as a line, surface, or solid; -- called also describent.

To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. Shak.

dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majo…

Degenerate; mean.

like; a heavy writer or book. Whilst the heavy plowman snores. Shak. Of a heavy, dull, degenerate mind. Dryden. Neither [is] his ear heavy, that it can not hear. Is. lix. 1.

A warped surface which may be generated by a straight line moving in such a manner that every point of the line shall have a uniform motion in the direction of another fixed straight line, and at the same time a uniform angular motion about it.

A worthless, base, degenerate person or animal. [Obs.] Callander.

To generate within; to inbreed. [Obs.] Hakewill.

To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton.

Innate; inborn; inbred; inherent; native; ingenerate. [Obs.] It is naturalor ingenite, which comes by some defect of the organs and overmuch brain. Burton.

An unregenerate state. [Obs.]