v. i. To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is produced, brought forth, or yielded; product; yield; proceeds; result of labor, especially of agricultural labors; hence, specifically, agricultural products. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Isa. xli. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your parents did not produce you much into the world. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The greatest jurist his country had produced. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Geom.) To extend; -- applied to a line, surface, or solid; as, to produce a side of a triangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Production. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. producens, p. pr. ] One who produces, or offers to notice. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Iron & Steel Manuf.) A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Horse Racing) A race to be run by the produce of horses named or described at the time of entry. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Polit. Econ.) Goods that satisfy wants only indirectly as factors in the production of other goods, such as tools and raw material; -- called also instrumental goods, auxiliary goods, intermediate goods, or goods of the second and higher orders, and disting. from consumers' goods. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. (Polit. Econ.) Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly (temporary or permanent) of the means or materials of production; -- called also . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]