spawnn.
/spɔːn/, U.S. /spɔn/, /spɑn/ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > of male
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spawnc1430
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milker?a1500
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milter1834
c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 14 Take..þe lyuer an þe Spaune, an sethe it y-now in fayre Water.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. 90 Take a Gurnard..(the lyuer and þe Spawne with-in him).
2. in extended use.1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. ii. f. 95 Whether perles bee..the byrthe or spaune of there intrals.1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 4 They bite to clense their teeth from all spawne and spume of venome.
a. The minute eggs of fishes and various other oviparous animals (chiefly aquatic or amphibian), usually extruded in large numbers and forming a more or less coherent or gelatinous mass; also, the young brood hatched from such eggs, while still in an early stage of development.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn
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the world > animals > family unit > [noun] > offspring or young > of animals that lay eggs
broodc1000
spawn1491
hatch1622
hatch-out1895
hatching1905
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > egg > spawn
spawn1491
1491 Act 7 Hen. VII c. 9 Grete multitude of Spawne and broode of all maner fysshes of the See.
1545 Bibliotheca Eliotæ Anguilla, a fyshe called an eele, whiche..cometh without generacion or spawne.
a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 58 A Kinde of Weedes..wherin the Spaune hath Socur, and also the greate Fische.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Dii/2 Ye Spaune of fishe, fœtus..auxumæ.
1600 T. Dallam Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) i. 95 This day we saw greate store of the spane of whales, whearof they make spermacetie.
1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 325 Anoint it with the spawn of red Snails.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. v. 338 The Semina or Spawn of Insects.
1710 Tatler No. 236. ⁋5 He filled several Barrels with the choicest Spawn of Frogs.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 12/1 The first Appearance of them is in a sort of Spawn, spread over the Cabbage leaves.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 50 Oysters usually cast their spawn in May.
1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 191 Eels are also plentiful; and their spawn, while ascending the river.., are caught in vast quantities.
1845 G. Budd On Dis. Liver 400 It is remarkable, too, that their excrement and spawn should not have set up disease in the substance of the liver.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 27 The European Bass are said to deposit their spawn near the mouths of rivers.
b. With a and plural. A fish-egg; an undeveloped fish.
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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > an egg or parts of
spawn1563
berry1768
eye1840
oil-drop1849
1563 L. Blundeston in B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. H.v But Pikes haue Spawnes good stoore in euery Pound.
1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus Famous Hyst. ii. f. 93 These male fishe..shed theyr seede by the way, which their femals..deuour, and thereof shortly after breede theyr spawnes.
?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse iii. sig. F4v Bare-foote may no Neighbour wade..When the spawnes one stones do lye, To wash ther Hempe, and spoyle the frye.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Alace, a meate made of spaunes of fishes.
3. A brood; a numerous offspring. Chiefly figurative.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring
seedOE
offspringOE
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produce1823
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 She poured forth..Her fruitfull cursed spawne of serpents small.
1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 127 Bearing a spawne of many new-bred sinnes.
a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 473 Such..are..not only suffered to remayne within, but to encrease also, so that there is euen a fresh spawne of such euery day.
a1740 D. Waterland Def. Ld. Bp. St. David's in Wks. (1823) VI. 282 Its effects and consequences..are plainly a spawn of all vices and villanies, a deluge of all mischiefs and outrages upon the earth.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 6 The plays of A People's Theatre are—oh heaven, what are they?—not popular nor populous nor plebeian nor proletarian nor folk nor parish plays. None of that adjectival spawn.
4. figurative.
a. A person contemptuously regarded as the offspring of some parent or stock, or as imbued with some quality or principle. In early use frequently with a and plural.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun]
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childOE
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collop?1518
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prognate1663
chickadee1860
1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Civ They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia.
1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B2v Whie are not the spawnes of such a dog-fish hangd?
a1627 T. Middleton Witch (1945) i. ii. 423 Heer's a Spawne or two of the same Paddock-Brood.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all iv. 49 Thou Spawn of the old Serpent, fruitful in nothing but in Lyes!
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 67 The Gunner, Is commonly a Spawn of the Captain's one Projection.
1817 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. i This is that old seditious heretic... And here the young spawn of rebellion; My orders ar'n't to spare him.
1844 C. J. Lever Tom Burke II. lxxi. 164 There was a cry..to have the child executed also, and many called out that the spawn would be a serpent one day.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 59 ‘Oh, apostate!’ cries the bell-wether, ‘oh, spawn of Beelzebub!’
b. Similarly in collective use.
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1602 B. Jonson Poetaster Prol. sig. A3 How ere that common Spawne of Ignorance, Our Fry of Writers, may beslime his fame. View more context for this quotation
1640 J. Fletcher & J. Shirley Night-walker iii. sig. E4 The Goblins, Hagges, and the blacke spawne of darknesse Cannot fright me.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 83 They are worse Brokers than Jews; if they be not the Spawn of them, the Rechabites, that would drink no Wine.
1729 J. Gay Polly ii. ii. 30 You ne'er were drawn..Among the spawn Who practice the frauds of courts.
1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 126 Other Northern Nations, who have..overrun the Face of Europe; leaving a Mixture of their Spawn in all Parts of it.
1852 R. S. Hawker in C. E. Byles Life & Lett. R. S. Hawker (1905) xiv. 228 The wretched Heretics, the spawn of that miscreant John Wesley.
1895 H. R. Haggard Heart of World xvii The vengeance of generations [might be] accomplished upon the spawn of the Spaniard.
5. figurative. A product, result, or effect of something.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun]
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a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 192 Regnat additamentum Leviathan, sayes Saint Bernard, the spawns of Leviathan, the seed of sinne,..reignes most in that part of the body.
1646 J. Hall Horæ Vacivæ 45 Libels are her spawns.
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. v. 12 The result and spawn of lying fame.
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1772) V. xiii. 282 Atheism..is the annual spawn and the natural effect of the gross superstitions..of the Romish church.
1789 W. Belsham Ess. II. xxv. 17 If this hypothesis be a spawn of the Oriental philosophy, it ought to be rejected.
1862 F. D. Maurice Mod. Philos. ix. §35. 558 In the sentimental spawn which was produced from him.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air i. 59 The many monstrous and misbegotten fantasies which are the spawn of modern licence.
6. figurative. The source or origin of something.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun]
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Quelle1893
a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 273 It is called, ‘The root of all evil,’..as if we would say, the spawn of all sin.
1607 S. Hieron Platforme Obed. in Wks. (1620) I. 331 Both haue in them the root and seed and (as it were) the spawne and beginning of euery euill.
1650 T. Hubbert Pilula 220 In their birth lies the spawne of all evil.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 35 The Primitive Martyrs, which were the Churches Spawn.
7.
a. The mycelium of mushrooms or other fungi.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > cells and tissue
chive1721
spawn1731
mushroom spawn1753
volva1753
ring1777
veil1777
curtain1796
wrapper1796
fungin1813
subiculum1821
cortina1832
velum1832
mycelium1836
uterus1836
gleba1847
hypostroma1855
sulcus1856
rhizopod1859
tigellule1860
trichophore1860
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hypothecium1866
rhizopodium1866
annulus1871
capillitium1871
acervulus1872
weft1875
capsule1883
clamp-connection1887
periphysis1887
chain gemma1893
trumpet hypha1900
metula1915
monokaryon1935
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Mushrooms A Bed thus manag'd, if the Spawn takes kindly, will..produce great Quantities of Mushrooms.
1763 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry IV. 187 This seed, or rather this spawn..should be kept very dry till it is used.
1824 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening (ed. 2) iii. i. 597 Spawn is a white fibrous substance, running like broken threads, in such dry reduced dung, or other nidus, as is fitted to nourish it.
1845 Florist Jrnl. 126 The spawn being thus provided, the next consideration is the preparation of the dung, and the making of the bed.
1867 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings (1870) vi. 112 The spawn of the mushrooms..both consume putrescent organized matter, and manure the land.
b. The bulbils of gladiolus.
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1895 T. W. Sanders Encycl. Gardening (1896) 144 Gladiolus... Propagate by seeds..; by bulbils (spawn) growing at base of corms.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as spawn-box, spawn-deposit; spawn-feathered, spawn-like adjs.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective]
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creamy1610
slutchy1627
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sloppy1794
sloshy1797
custardy1824
viscous1830
gruelly1838
sposhy1842
squishy1847
squitchy1851
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soupy1869
custardly1870
gloopy1929
gunky1937
spawn-like1938
squodgy1970
gloppy1976
a1640 J. Day Parl. Bees (1641) sig. E1v The greater number of spawne feathered Bees Fly low like Kites.
1853 Zoologist 11 4040 I have also seen young toads, though I never noticed any spawn~deposits.
1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 420 In the greenhouse are spawn-boxes.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 249 The iris was reduced to a thin glaucous rim of spawnlike consistency.
C2. † spawn-stone n. Obsolete oolite, roe-stone.
spawn-brick n. a brick-shaped mass of compost containing mushroom-spawn.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > mushrooms > compost containing spawn
spawn-brickc1820
c1820 in Loudon Encycl. Gard. (1824) §3413 I shall next give directions how to form spawn-bricks.
spawn-eater n. U.S. (see quot. 1881).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus hudsonis
spawn-eater1881
spawn-pike1884
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 131 The Spawn-eater, or Smelt (Leuciscus hudsonicus), is a silvery fish..about three inches long, and occurs in Lake Superior.
spawn-pike n. U.S. (see quot. 1884).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > superorder Ostariophysi or order Cypriniformes > [noun] > suborder Cyprinoidei > family Cyprinidae (minnows and carps) > genus Leuciscus > leuciscus hudsonis
spawn-eater1881
spawn-pike1884
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 421 At Vermillion, Ohio, there is caught, early in the spring, what is termed the ‘Spawn Pike’.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > oolite
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ammonite1706
ammites1750
kern-stone1753
marlstone1766
oolite1802
roestone1804
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 252 Ammonites,..Lesser Spawn-stone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
spawnv.
/spɔːn/, U.S. /spɔn/, /spɑn/ I. intransitive.in extended use.1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces i. 15 These Nations, which seemed to spawn in every Age, and..discharged their own native Countreys of so vast Numbers.
1. Of fish, etc.: To cast spawn.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in amount, number, or frequency
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increasec1315
multiplyc1330
spawnc1400
breed1600
propagate1653
proliferate1915
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (intransitive)] > spawn
spawnc1400
sperma1425
c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1859) v. xiv. 80 Whiche fisshes he putte in the stewe, where they haue spawned and multyplyed.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/2 Spawnyn, as fyschys (K. spanyn), pisciculo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 727/1 Never use to ete fyschys, whan they spawne, for they be nat holsom than.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Diiv/1 To Spaune, oua gignere.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 560 The Arabians and Lybians eat them before they haue spawned.
1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland xvi. 81 The fishermen, at those times when the fishes do spawn, do alwaies live on the side of some river.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. xxxi. 143 I saw..Fish milting, spawning.
1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 317 Carp spawn in May, June, or July.
1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais xxix. 16 The sun comes forth, and many reptiles spawn.
1865 J. Hatton Bitter Sweets xxvi The bream and the tench had spawned in the river.
2.
a. To increase or develop after the manner of spawn; to become reproductive.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)]
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tidderOE
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1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 151 Seeds of sinne, which naturally breed and (as it were) spawne in our hearts.
1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid i. iii. 10 Then is that wound in that natural swelling hindered,..then it begins to spawn and swell.
1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1260 These [flower-spikes] are thick set in oblong heads, which sometime spawn or divide at the bottom.
b. To grow or develop into something.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into
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to glide into1800
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1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra ii. i. 168 Errour..stops not at one or two Falshoods, but is apt to spawn into many others.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. vii. 243 Navigation had not spawn'd into Sholes, or afterwards.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 198 Oh I have loved the working class Where I was born, And lived to see them spawn into machine-robots.
3.
a. To issue or come forth like or after the manner of spawn.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from a source
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1657 W. Morice Coena quasi Κοινὴ iii. 136 These dismal Heresies which have lately spawn'd.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §124 [Lying] is so ill a Quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it.
b. Of persons: to swarm out.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > in large numbers
swarm1513
spawn1760
to throw out1772
pile1896
1760 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii, in Poems The wives and gytlings a' spawn'd [1718, etc.: spang'd] out O'er middings, and o'er dykes.
4. To swarm or teem with something.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with
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to swarm in1482
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to swarm with1548
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1818 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 19 93 The infidelity with which some of the Scotch schools have spawned during the last half century.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iii. 45 The rivers and the surrounding sea spawn with fish.
II. transitive.
5.
a. To produce or generate as spawn or in large numbers; also, in contemptuous use, to give birth to (a person).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]
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begeteOE
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propage1695
to make a baby1911
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs)
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warpa1340
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deposit1692
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spit1847
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 372 Some report, a Sea-maid spawn'd him. Some, that he was begot betweene two Stock-fishes. View more context for this quotation
1687 M. Prior & Earl of Halifax Hind & Panther Transvers'd 9 Or else reforming Corah spawn'd this Class.
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs 24 They generally spawn about fifty at a time.
1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 827 A race obscene, Spawn'd in the muddy beds of Nile, came forth, Polluting Egypt.
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. iii. vii. 119 A race spawned perhaps in the morasses of some Northern forest hardly yet cleared.
1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 107 She spawneth men as mallows fresh.
1891 T. R. Lounsbury Stud. Chaucer III. vii. 198 A poet of the kind the eighteenth century spawned in profusion.
b. With forth, upon.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)]
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begeteOE
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kenec1275
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pullulate1602
traduct1604
progenerate1611
store1611
spawna1616
spawna1617
reproduce1650
propage1695
to make a baby1911
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs)
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warpa1340
cast1587
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spit1847
a1617 S. Hieron Spirituall Fishing in Wks. (1620) I. 644 Nature hath (as it were) spawned vs forth into this worldly sea.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice II. vi. ii. 210 But oh, that a nation which has known a Corneille, should ever spawn forth a Janin!
1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks i. 31 Then think of multitudes of men spawned upon the country every year by our medical institutions.
6.
a. To engender, produce, bring forth, give rise to; spec. of tornadoes or the like. Also with forth and out.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to
makeOE
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to stir upc1530
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to pull ona1586
to brood up1586
to set afloat (on float)1586
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initiate1604
inbreed1605
irritate1612
to give rise to1630
to let in1655
to gig (out)1659
to set up1851
gin1887
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)]
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seek1340
brewc1386
divine1393
to find outc1405
to search outc1425
to find up?c1430
forgec1430
upfindc1440
commentc1450
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father1548
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mint1593
spawn1594
cook1599
infantize1619
fabulize1633
notionate1645
to make upc1650
to spin outa1651
to cook up1655
to strike out1735
mother1788
to think up1855
to noodle out1950
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1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K3 Her eies in their closing seemed to spaune forth in their outward sharpe corners new created seed pearle.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 202 But well it were if meer Speculation were onely barren;..In the Church it spawneth Heresies.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 47 The curiosity of the Greeks spawned so many subtleties.
1709 J. Swift Let. conc. Sacramental Test 27 What Practices such Principles as these..may Spaun, when they are laid out to the Sun, you may determine at Leisure.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe in Wks. (1842) I. 557 That they are not permitted to spawn a hydra of wild republicks, on principles of a pretended natural equality in man.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies i. 23 The house looked..as if it had been all spawned in a night, as mushrooms are.
1955 Sci. News Let. 18 June 394/1 The general atmospheric conditions in which hurricanes are spawned are known.
1965 Listener 21 Oct. 610/1 Every summer the violent climate of the central United States spawns a series of devastating storms—tornadoes—twisters they call them here.
1976 Bay City (Mich.) Times 12 July 1/5 Powerful thunderstorms roamed much of the East Sunday spawning tornadoes and flash floods.
b. spec. in contemptuous use with reference to literary work, utterances, etc.
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the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly
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to say outc1384
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blunder1483
blab1535
overshoot1549
spita1616
spawn1631
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)]
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adighteOE
awriteeOE
writeeOE
dightc1000
workOE
makelOE
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ditea1300
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recite1523
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invent1576
author1597
context1628
to make up1630
spawn1631
the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > with ease, speed, or success, or in large quantities > excessively or too easily
spawn1631
swarm1842
1631 A. Wilson Swisser (1904) v. i. 89 From kissing a' the hand to cutting a' the throat, Sir, O you shall meet 'em, spawning out the word, With such a Grace.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 29 Books..come swimming into the world like shoals of Fishes, and one edition spawneth another.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 87 Of late years Mr. Bayes had regularly spawned his books.
a1704 Friendly Adv. to Dr. Bl—— in T. Brown Wks. (1711) IV. 197 Such vile Heroicks..Were never spawn'd before from Irish Brains.
1713 London Gaz. No. 5118/2 The Press..hath Spawn'd so many Blasphemous..Pamphlets.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V lii. 161 But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey.., And spawns his quarto.
1826 in W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 23 Sept. 798 Cobbett's prophecies were falsified as soon as spawned.
7. To supply with spawn or mycelium.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [verb (transitive)] > spawn mushroom-beds
spawn1786
1786 J. Abercrombie Gardeners Daily Assistant 205 Mushroom spawn—for spawning new beds.
8. To extract spawn from (fishes).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [verb (transitive)] > extract roe
spawn1880
strip1880
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland I. p. cix The mode of spawning or stripping fish..requires practice.
Derivatives
spawned adj. (a) cast or deposited as spawn; (b) that has emitted spawn; spent. also with out.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [adjective] > relating to laying of eggs > spawning > that has emitted spawn
spawned1866
1866 Banffshire Gloss. 176 Speinty, a spawned fish.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 3/2 Sometimes these spawned salmon resemble the genuine article so closely that only an expert can distinguish the difference.
1972 Trout & Salmon June 41/1 Unripe fish as well as spawned-out carcasses and unused roe..are sold in the market.
1972 L. Hancock There's a Seal in my Sleeping Bag vi. 132 Birds congregated on the salmon river to feed on the spawned-out salmon.
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