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Capable of being produced; producible.

Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.

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

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.

A female producer.

An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.

A substance or device that has its conductivity altered in some way by electric waves, as a coherer.

To conduct back or again. "A guide to reconduct thy steps." Dryden.

To reduce. [Obs.] W. Warde.

The quality of being reducible; reducibleness.

being reduced; conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious province.

A reductive agent. Sir M. Hale.

By reduction; by consequence.

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

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

Reproductive.

A leading or bringing back.

To conduct safely; to give safe-conduct to. [POetic] He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love. Spenser.

That which seduces, or is adapted to seduce; means of leading astray; as, the seductions of wealth.