spawnn.

Brit.

/spɔːn/, U.S.

/spɔn/,

/spɑn/

Forms: Middle English–1500s spawne, spaune, 1500s spaume, spane, 1600s spaen, 1600s– spawn.

Etymology: < spawn v.

†1. The milt of a fish. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > of male

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spawnc1430

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milker?a1500

soft roe1587

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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).

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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redd1547

pea1758

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 Y^e 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.

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.

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. F4^v 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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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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1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Ci^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B2^v 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.

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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ordeOE

wellspringeOE

fathereOE

headeOE

oreOE

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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.

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

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hypostroma1855

sulcus1856

rhizopod1859

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trichophore1860

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hypothecium1866

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acervulus1872

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clamp-connection1887

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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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sloshy1797

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gruelly1838

sposhy1842

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squitchy1851

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gloopy1929

gunky1937

spawn-like1938

squodgy1970

gloppy1976

a1640 J. Day Parl. Bees (1641) sig. E1^v 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-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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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’.

† spawn-stone n. Obsolete oolite, roe-stone.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > oolite

spawn-stone1668

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.

Brit.

/spɔːn/, U.S.

/spɔn/,

/spɑn/

Forms: Middle English spawnyn ( spanyn), Middle English–1600s spawne (1500s spaune), 1600s– spawn.

Etymology: apparently for *spaund, < Anglo-Norman espaundre , = Old French espandre (modern French épandre ) to shed, spill, pour out < Latin expandĕre expand v.The Anglo-Norman word occurs in the treatise of Walter de Bibbesworth (Wright Voc. I. 164) in the line ‘Soffret le peysoun en ewe espaundre’, and is glossed by scheden his roune, ‘shed his roe’ (Skeat), misprinted by Wright as scheden him frome.

I. intransitive.

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

waxc897

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. Dii^v/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.

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.

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)]

teemOE

tidderOE

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prolify1660

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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evolve?1831

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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.

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.

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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kenec1275

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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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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.

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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generate1552

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kind1596

traduce1599

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)

layc1000

warpa1340

cast1587

spawna1616

spawna1617

deposit1692

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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.

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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wakenc1330

engendera1393

gendera1398

raisea1400

begetc1443

reara1513

ingener1513

ingenerate1528

to stir upc1530

yield1576

to pull ona1586

to brood up1586

to set afloat (on float)1586

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innate1602

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)]

findeOE

conceive1340

seek1340

brewc1386

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to find outc1405

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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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly

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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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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

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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.

ΘΚΠ

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).

ΘΚΠ

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.

ΘΚΠ

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.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spawn
释义	spawnn. Brit. /spɔːn/, U.S. /spɔn/, /spɑn/ Forms: Middle English–1500s spawne, spaune, 1500s spaume, spane, 1600s spaen, 1600s– spawn. Etymology: < spawn v. †1. The milt of a fish. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > of male milka1398 spawnc1430 milt1483 milker?a1500 soft roe1587 milch1673 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. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn peasesa1398 rawna1425 rown1440 roec1450 kelka1475 spawn1491 roan1525 redd1547 pea1758 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 Y^e 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. 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. b. With a and plural. A fish-egg; an undeveloped fish. ΘΚΠ 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. F4^v 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring seedOE offspringOE begottena1325 birtha1325 issuea1325 burgeoninga1340 fruit of the loinsa1340 young onec1384 increasement1389 geta1400 gendera1425 procreation1461 progeniturec1487 engendera1500 propagation1536 feture1537 increase1552 breed1574 spawn1590 bowela1593 teeming1599 pullulation1641 prolifications1646 educt1677 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. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] bairn830 childOE foodc1225 whelp?c1225 birtha1325 first-begottenc1384 conceptiona1398 impc1412 heir1413 foddera1425 fryc1480 collop?1518 increase1552 spawn1589 under-bougha1661 prognate1663 chickadee1860 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Ci^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B2^v 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] proofc1330 worka1382 workinga1382 consequentc1386 effectc1390 processa1400 consequencec1400 sequel1477 efficacea1492 operation1525 branch1526 efficacy1549 trial1559 ensuing1561 repercussion1603 success1606 productiona1610 salutation1609 succeedinga1616 pursuancea1626 spawna1631 income1635 result1638 importance1645 consequency1651 product1651 causal1652 causate1656 consectary1659 propter hoc1671 inference1673 corollary1674 resultment1683 produce1698 recussion1754 development1803 suitea1806 eventuation1813 sequent1838 sequence1853 causatum1879 sequela1883 ramification1925 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] welleOE mothereOE ordeOE wellspringeOE fathereOE headeOE oreOE wellspringOE rootc1175 morea1200 beginningc1200 head wella1325 sourcec1374 principlea1382 risinga1382 springinga1382 fountain14.. springerc1410 nativity?a1425 racinea1425 spring1435 headspring?a1439 seminaryc1440 originationc1443 spring wellc1450 sourdre1477 primordialc1487 naissance1490 wellhead?1492 offspringa1500 conduit-head1517 damc1540 springhead1547 principium1550 mint1555 principal1555 centre1557 head fountain1563 parentage1581 rise1589 spawna1591 fount1594 parent1597 taproot1601 origin1604 fountainhead1606 radix1607 springa1616 abundary1622 rist1622 primitive1628 primary1632 land-spring1642 extraction1655 upstart1669 progenerator1692 fontala1711 well-eye1826 first birth1838 ancestry1880 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. ΘΚΠ 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 hypha1866 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > semi-fluidity > [adjective] slabby1542 pottagy1565 uliginous1576 softa1593 slabbery1600 creamy1610 slutchy1627 slabberish1648 pappy1662 semifluid1775 sloppy1794 sloshy1797 custardy1824 viscous1830 gruelly1838 sposhy1842 squishy1847 squitchy1851 pea-soupy1859 porridgey1859 soupy1869 custardly1870 gloopy1929 gunky1937 spawn-like1938 squodgy1970 gloppy1976 a1640 J. Day Parl. Bees (1641) sig. E1^v 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-brick n. a brick-shaped mass of compost containing mushroom-spawn. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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’. † spawn-stone n. Obsolete oolite, roe-stone. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > sedimentary rock > [noun] > limestone > oolite spawn-stone1668 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. Brit. /spɔːn/, U.S. /spɔn/, /spɑn/ Forms: Middle English spawnyn ( spanyn), Middle English–1600s spawne (1500s spaune), 1600s– spawn. Etymology: apparently for spaund, < Anglo-Norman espaundre* , = Old French espandre (modern French épandre ) to shed, spill, pour out < Latin expandĕre expand v.The Anglo-Norman word occurs in the treatise of Walter de Bibbesworth (Wright Voc. I. 164) in the line ‘Soffret le peysoun en ewe espaundre’, and is glossed by scheden his roune, ‘shed his roe’ (Skeat), misprinted by Wright as scheden him frome. I. intransitive. 1. Of fish, etc.: To cast spawn. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in amount, number, or frequency waxc897 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. Dii^v/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. 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. 2. a. To increase or develop after the manner of spawn; to become reproductive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (intransitive)] teemOE tidderOE breedc1200 felefolda1300 fructifya1325 creasec1380 multiplyc1390 engendera1400 fawn1481 procreate1576 propagate1601 generate1605 spawn1607 pullulate1618 populate1625 reproduce1650 prolify1660 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. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > gradual change > change gradually [verb (intransitive)] > from or into slidea1398 growc1460 wear1555 accrue1586 ripen1611 shuffle1635 melt1651 steal1660 spawn1677 verge1757 to glide into1800 shade1819 evolve?1831 shadow1839 grade1892 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. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > go or come out [verb (intransitive)] > from a source forthgoc1000 flowc1175 sprouta1200 lightc1225 reflaira1450 emane1656 spawn1657 emanate1818 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > make abundant [verb (transitive)] > abound in or with > swarm with wallc1000 to swarm in1482 wamble1485 scrawl1530 to swarm with1548 exceed1624 pullulate1641 sny1674 teem1710 spawn1818 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). ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] kenc825 begeteOE strenec893 raisec1175 breeda1250 kenec1275 felefolda1300 engendera1325 tiddera1325 multiplyc1350 genderc1384 producea1513 procreatea1525 propagate1535 generate1552 product1577 kind1596 traduce1599 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) layc1000 warpa1340 cast1587 spawna1616 spawna1617 deposit1692 oviposit1847 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > multiply or reproduce [verb (transitive)] kenc825 begeteOE strenec893 raisec1175 breeda1250 kenec1275 felefolda1300 engendera1325 tiddera1325 multiplyc1350 genderc1384 producea1513 procreatea1525 propagate1535 generate1552 product1577 kind1596 traduce1599 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) layc1000 warpa1340 cast1587 spawna1616 spawna1617 deposit1692 oviposit1847 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. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > give rise to makeOE breedc1200 wakea1325 wakenc1330 engendera1393 gendera1398 raisea1400 begetc1443 reara1513 ingener1513 ingenerate1528 to stir upc1530 yield1576 to pull ona1586 to brood up1586 to set afloat (on float)1586 spawn1594 innate1602 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)] findeOE conceive1340 seek1340 brewc1386 divine1393 to find outc1405 to search outc1425 to find up?c1430 forgec1430 upfindc1440 commentc1450 to dream out1533 inventa1538 father1548 spina1575 coin1580 conceit1591 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 gin1980 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly clatterc1325 to say outc1384 parbreak1402 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)] setc888 adighteOE awriteeOE writeeOE dightc1000 workOE makelOE brevea1225 ditea1300 aditec1330 indite1340 betravail1387 compone1393 saya1475 compile1477 compose1483 comprise1485 recite1523 pen1530 contex1542 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1430v.c1400
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