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One who produces, brings forth, or generates.

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.

Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.

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

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions ar…

The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin.

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.

Serving to predispose; predisposing; as, a proeguminal cause of disease.

Preface; introduction; preliminary observations; prelude. Thus much may serve by way of proem. Swift.

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

Introductory; prefatory; preliminary. [R.] Hammond.

The addition of a day to the lunar calendar. [R.] See Metemptosis.

t do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome. [Obs.] Master page, good master page, sit. Proface! Shak.