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The act of begetting; generation and production of young. South.

A production out of ordinary course of nature; an abnormal development; a monster. B. Jonson.

Production. [Obs.]

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.

roducer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.

The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

The production of numerous zooids by budding, especially when buds arise from other buds in succession.

, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit tree.

act of propagating; continuance or multiplication of the kind by generation or successive production; as, the propagation of animals or plants. There is not in nature any spontaneous generation, but all come by propagation. Ray.

on in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed to free trade. Writ of protection. (Law) (a) A writ by which the king formerly exempted a person from arrest; -- now disused. [Eng.] Blackstone. (b) A judicial w…

Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.

The thing first formed; that of which there are subsequent copies or reproductions; the original.

gallic acid. It is a strong reducer, and is used as a developer in photography and in the production of certain dyes.

A production of pyrography.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of luminous or thermal rays. It is essentially the same as the photophone.

The production of branchlike figures. Crabb.

es of a plant of the turnip kind, grown for seeds and herbage. The seeds are used for the production of rape oil, and to a limited extent for the food of cage birds.