Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Offspring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Offspring \Off"spring`\, n.sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]
1. The act of production; generation. [Obs.]

2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant
or descendants, however remote from the stock.

To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives
are known. --Dryden.

3. Origin; lineage; family. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

offspring
n 1: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother
of many offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn: {progeny},
{issue}]
2: something that comes into existence as a result;
"industrialism prepared the way for acceptance of the
French Revolution's various socialistic offspring"; "this
skyscraper is the solid materialization of his efforts"
[syn: {materialization}, {materialisation}]
3: any immature animal [syn: {young}]


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