Pro*duce" (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Produced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Producing (?).] [L. producere, productum, to
bring forward, beget, produce; pro forward, forth +
ducere to lead. See Duke.]
1. To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer
to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a
witness or evidence in court.
Produce your cause, saith the Lord.
Isa. xli. 21.
Your parents did not produce you much into the
world.
Swift.
2. To bring forth, as young, or as a natural
product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to
propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass;
trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain.
This soil produces all sorts of palm
trees.
Sandys.
[They] produce prodigious births of body or
mind.
Milton.
The greatest jurist his country had
produced.
Macaulay.
3. To cause to be or to happen; to originate,
as an effect or result; to bring about; as, disease produces
pain; vice produces misery.
4. To give being or form to; to manufacture;
to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.
5. To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at
interest produces an income; capital produces
profit.
6. To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to
prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore.
Sir T. Browne.
7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a
line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a
triangle.
Pro*duce", v. i. To yield or
furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or
results.
Prod"uce (?; 277), n. That which is
produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result
of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence,
specifically, agricultural products.
