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First born, made, or generated; original; primary; elemental; as, primogenial light. Glanvill.

To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.

o 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. Milton…

One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

Capable of being produced, brought forward, brought forth, generated, made, or extended. -- Pro*du"ci*ble*ness, n.

Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.

cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid. -- Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.

To generate; to produce. Motion propagated motion, and life threw off life. De Quincey.

is, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its eleme…

t (Geom.), the common point of a pencil of rays. -- Röntgen ray ( (Phys.), a kind of ray generated in a very highly exhausted vacuum tube by the electrical discharge. It is capable of passing through many bodies opaque to light, and producing photographic and fluorescent effects by which means pictures showing the int…

The state of being regenerated. Hammond.

The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. H. Bushnell. Regenerative furnace (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

So as to regenerate.

One who, or that which, regenerates.

Born again; regenerate; renewed. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.

To make new spiritually; to regenerate. Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind. Rom. xii. 2.

ause the existence 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.

surface about a point or line as its center or axis, in such a manner that a moving point generates a curve, a moving line a surface (called a surface of revolution), and a moving surface a solid (called a solid of revolution); as, the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of its sides generates a cone; the r…