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ind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage. " Issued from the progeny of kings." Shak.

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

To raise a breed; to get progeny. The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. Gardner. To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related.

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.

A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of human parents; -- in law, legitimate offspring. Used also of animals and plants.

That which is generated or brought forth; progeny; offspiring.

Offspring; progeny; as, the get of a stallion.

ng the naked-eyed medusæ; the hydromedusæ. Most of them are known to be the free-swimming progeny (gonophores) of hydroids.

An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax.

Progeny; issue; offspring. All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Sam. ii. 33.

Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants. If the king Should without issue die. Shak.

Having no issue or progeny; childless. "The heavens . . . have left me issueless." Shak.

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage. Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet. Spenser.

The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. Drayton.

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

conceal. HIde, for shame, Romans, your grandsires' images, That blush at their degenerate progeny. Dryden. Have you no modesty, no maiden shame Shak.

Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake (Zoöl.), any serpent which has poison glands and fangs, whether dangerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. The fo…