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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.

An extinct flying reptile; one of the Pterosauria. See Illustration in Appendix.

Same as Pterosauria.

The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

To introduce again. -- Re*in`tro*duc"tion (-d, n.

To produce again. Especially:

One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.

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.

See Scrod.

One of the Sclerodermata.

A disease of adults, characterized by a diffuse rigidity and hardness of the skin.

The stony corals; the Madreporaria.

Of or pertaining to the Sclerodermata.