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▪ I. ˈspawning, vbl. n.
[f. spawn v.]
1. The action of depositing or laying spawn.
c1440Promp. Parv. 467/2 Spawnynge, of fysche, pissiculacio. 1653Walton Angler 146 His time of breeding, or spawning. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Salmo, In the season for spawning it removes into the fresh waters again. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1824) III. 48 Their [sc. lampreys] preparation for spawning is peculiar. 1842Loudon Suburban Hort. 525 It is always best to repeat the spawning when the heat is on the decline. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. 95 The female becomes large for spawning.
fig.a1662Heylin Laud (1668) 368 The Churches cast into the same mould..at the spawning of the second separation.
2. attrib., as spawning force, spawning season, spawning time, etc.
1601Holland Pliny I. 245 If a man do the same with a female in spawning time, hee shall haue as many milters follow after her. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Sat. ii. viii. 58 This Fish, Mæcenas, big with Spawn was caught, For after spawning-time its Flesh is naught. 1799Monthly Rev. XXX. 51 To prevent the destruction of this most valuable fish, during the spawning season. 1833Rennie Alph. Angling 66 It is of much importance for the angler to attend to the spawning time of trout. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Race Wks. (Bohn) II. 20 The spawning force of the [British] race. 1860― Cond. Life, Considerations Ibid. 415 This spawning productivity is not noxious or needless. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 320 Protection is accorded to all fish in the spawning season. 1883Wallem Fish Supply Norway 6 The codfish..are.. of 10 or 11 lbs. weight alive, and their errand seems only to be that of a first spawning-trip.
b. In the sense ‘in which spawning is performed’, as spawning-bed, spawning-ground, spawning-pan, spawning-place, spawning-pond.
1771Phil. Trans. LXI. 315 The first is called the spawning⁓pond. a1841in Penny Cycl. XX. 363/2 Three pairs have been seen on the spawning-bed at the same time. 1866Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 446/2 Notable from time immemorial as favourite spawning-places. 1883Wallem Fish Supply Norway 12 Therefore caplin is used for bait, and is caught only for that purpose on its spawning-grounds. 1883Earll in Goode Fish Indust. U.S. 77 A few spawning-pans, dippers, and pails, in which to impregnate the eggs.
▪ II. ˈspawning, ppl. a.
[f. as prec.]
1. Of fish, etc.: Engaged in casting spawn.
1579E. K. Gloss. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Oct. 14 Frye, is a bold Metaphore, forced from the spawning fishes. 1873Beeton's Dict. Comm. s.v. Norway, Spawning fish form only a small part of this fishery. 1883Wallem Fish Supply Norway 15 This fishing of spawning herring has been ruined.
2. transf. Fertile; teeming; prolific.
1682Lond. Gaz. No. 1729/3 That late horrid Confederacy,..called by the prolifick spawning name of an Association. 1867Emerson May-Day & Other Pieces Wks. (Bohn) III. 439 On spawning slime my song prevails. 1878― Misc. Papers, Fort. Republ. Ibid. 399 Then Illinois and Indiana with their spawning loins must needs be ordinary. |