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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 are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.…

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.

A secondary or additional product; something produced, as in the course of a manufacture, in addition to the principal product.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.

The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.),

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

Reproductive.

The production of less than is demanded or of less than the usual supply. F. A. Walker.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

The immature product of an untimely birth.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

Pertaining to, or causing the production of, sound by means of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays; as, actinophonic phenomena.