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The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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.),

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

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.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

The representation or reproduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

of this. The same reaction has been applied, under the name of aldol condensation, to the production of many compounds.

s of substances formed, in secreting cells, by constructive or anabolic processes, in the production of protoplasm; -- opposed to katastate. Foster.

ne in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.

The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played.

The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common A…

of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle…

The production and excretion of bile.