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r sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

One who begets; a father.

To deprive of existence. Dryden.

temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

To beget out of wedlock. [R.] Shak.

on); bespeak (to speak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).

imp. & p. p. of Beget.

p. p. of Beget.

To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.

er." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

x or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.

he common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance. Shak. All that I eat, or drink, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget. [R.]

To make one's self the father of; to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak.

To beget; to engender.

To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

One who begets; a generator; an originator. Sheldon.

To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. Shak.