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a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden.

An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

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

e, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

Offspring. [Obs.] Shak.

A child; an offspring; -- formerly used in a good sense, but now usually in a contemptuous sense. "This brat is none of mine." Shak. "A beggar's brat." Swift. O Israel! O household of the Lord! O Abraham's brats! O brood of blessed seed! Gascoigne.

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.

ame time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the same age; offspring; progeny; as, a woman with a brood of children. The lion roars and gluts his tawny brood. Wordsworth.

stinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. E. Darwin.

To bring forth young; to produce offspring. Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve Job xxxix. 1. The grassy clods now calved. Molton.

ndant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

Equally eternal. -- Co`e*ter"nal*ly, adv. Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam. Milton.

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal.

One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; -- correlative to ancestor or ascendant. Our first parents and their descendants. Hale. The descendant of so many kings and emperors. Burke.

four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. Berkeley. The drama and contrivances of God's providence. Sharp.

ered and so husbanded Shak. To father on or upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." Barrow.

The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton.