produce 
The value of mining produce Is determined generally 111 
the same way as that of agricultural product. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 51. 
Is it not the case that Satan has so composed and dressed 
out what is the mere natural produce of the human heart 
under certain circumstances as to serve his purposes as 
the counterfeit of the Truth? 
./. U. Newman, Parochial Sermons, L 313. 
Specifically (a) The total yield or outcome: as, the pro- 
duce of the county for the past year has been very large. 
In Staffordshire, after their lands are marled, they sow 
it with barley, allowing three bushels to an acre. Its com- 
mon produce Is thirty bushels. Mortimer, Husbandry. 
(6) In coin., agricultural products, as grain, lard, hops, etc., 
and other articles, as petroleum, which arc bought and 
sold with them on the same exchange, (e) In metal., the 
assay percentage of copper ore. [This use of the word Is 
limited to Cornwall, England.] 
The assays [of copper] are made by units and eighths per 
cent., which result of percentage Is called the produce. 
Phulips, Explorers' Companion, p. 395. 
=8yn. Product, etc. See production. 
produce-broker (prod'us-bro'ker), n. A dealer 
in produce, as grain, groceries, or dyestufls, 
usually acting as agent or on commission, 
produced (pro-dust ), p. a. In rooY., drawn out ; 
elongated ; extended ; protrusive or protuber- 
ant : as, the produced jaws of a garpike. 
produce-exchange (prod'us-eks-chanj'), . An 
exchange where produce is bought and sold. 
See produce (b). 
producementt (pro-dus'ment), H. [< produce 
+ -meitt.] Production. 
Which repulse only, given to the Prelats, . . . was the 
producemcnt of ... glorious effects and consequences In 
the Church. Milton, Apology for Smeety tnnuus. 
produce-merchant ( prod ' us -mer* chant), . 
Same as produce-broker. 
producent (pro-du'sent), H. f<.li.prodi(ceii(t-)s, 
ppr. of producere, bring forth or forward : see 
produce.] One who or that which produces, 
brings forth, exhibits, or effects. 
These species are made a medium between body and 
spirit, . . . and the supposition Infers a creative energle 
in the object their producent, which allows not to creature 
efficients. Olanville, Vanity of Dogmatizing, iv. 
If an instrument be produced with a protestation In fa- 
vour of the producent, and the adverse party does not con- 
tradict, it shall be construed to the advantage of thepro- 
dttcent. Ayli/e, Paragon. 
producer (pro-du'ser), H. One who or that 
whicli produces or generates: as, an agricul- 
tural producer (farmer); a gas-producer (ap- 
paratus) ; specifically, in polit. econ., one who 
causes any article to have an exchangeable 
value : the opposite of consumer. 
The divine will is absolute ; it is its own reason ; it Is 
both the producer and the ground of all its acts. 
South, Sermons, VIII. r. 
Now wages and profits will be In proportion to the sacri- 
fices undergone wherever, and only as far as, competition 
prevails among producers. Cairnes, Pol. Econ., I. ill. $ 5. 
The hands are the producers, and the aim of the masters 
was to regard the producers as so many machines. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 225. 
producibility (pro-du-si-bil'i-ti), n. [< produ- 
cible + -ity (see -bility).] Tne capability of be- 
ing produced. 
There being nothing contained In the notion of substance 
inconsistent with such a producibiliti/. 
Barrow, Works, II. xil. 
producible (pro-du'si-bl), a. [(produce + -ible.] 
1 . Capable of being produced or brought into 
view or notice, or of being exhibited. 
Many warm expressions of the fathers are producible In 
this case. Decay of Christian Piety. 
Certain sleeping accommodations producible from re- 
cesses in the front and back counting-nouses. 
Charlotte Brontf, Shirley, Iv. 
2. Capable of being produced or brought into 
being ; able to be generated or made. 
Mischief producible by the ravages of noxious animals, 
such as beasts of prey, locusts. 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xvi. 33, note. 
producibleness (pro-du'si-bl-nes), n. [< pro- 
ducible + -ness.] The state or quality of being 
producible. 
That alone will suffice to destroy the universality and 
intireness of their hypothesis, and besides give cause to 
suspect that by further Industry the producibleness of 
other principles also may be discovered. 
Boyle, Works, I. 661. 
product (pro-dukf), v. t. [< L. productus, pp. 
of producere, lead forth, produce : see produce.] 
If. To bring forward; produce. 
Beeing producted to his last examination before the said 
bish. y xv day of January. FOJK, Martyrs, an. 1556. 
Great plentie of flue amber, . . . which is producted by 
the working of the sea upon those coasts. 
llolinshed, Descrip. of Britain, x. 
It seemes not meete, nor wholesome to iny place, 
To be producted (as, if I stay, I shall) 
Against the Moore. 
SAu*., Othello (folio 16-23), I. 1. 147. 
4753 
2. In entom., to draw out; lengthen Product- 
ed pronotum, a pronotnm terminated behind in a long 
process extending over the mesotborax, luetathorax, and 
part of the abdomen, a> In certain grasshoppers. 
product (prod'ukt), H. [= F. produit = Sp. Pg. 
producto = It. prodotto, produtto = D. 6. Sw. 
Dan. produkt, product, < L. productum, neut. 
of product us, pp. of producere, lead forth, pro- 
duce : see produce.] That which is produced; 
a production, (a) A thing which Is produced by nature, 
as fruits or grain-crops ; what Is yielded by the soil : as, 
the agricultural product* of a country. 
Fetch uncontrolled each labour of the sun, 
And make the product of the world our own. 
Additun, To the King. 
See thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, 
And heap 'd with product* ot Sabean springs ! 
/'/. Messiah, 1. 94. 
(6) Offspring. [Rare.] 
To whom thus Michael : These are the product 
Of those ill mated marriages thou saw'st. 
Milton, P. L, ri. 68.X 
(c) That which Is formed or produced by labor, usually by 
physical labor. 
Tin- centres of this organization of trade were the cloth- 
halls, to which the masters brought their products to 
market English Gilds (E. E. T. .\ Int., p. clxzi. 
Most of those books which have obtained great reputa- 
tion in the world are the producto of {treat and wise men. 
Watts, Improvement of the Mind, I. 2. 
Some of the richest land In England lies In the fen 
country, and that land Is as much the product of engineer- 
ing skill and prolonged labour as Portland Harbour or 
Menai Bridge. Roe, Contemporary Socialism, p. 446. 
(d) Effect; result; something resulting as a consequence. 
He, with all his capacities, and desires, and beliefs, is 
not an accident, but a product of the time. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 517. 
[Show me] 
What thy life last put heart and soul Into ; 
There shall I taste thy product. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 178. 
(e) In iniiili.. the result of multiplying one quantity or 
expression by another. Thus, 72 ia the product of S 
multiplied by 9; and dj/ <ix Is the product of // multi- 
plied by the operator d.d*. The quantities multiplied 
together are usually termed factors. Product result* 
from multiplication, as sum does from addition. (/) In 
clo'tn.. a compound not previously existing in a Inxly. 
but formed during decomposition : as, the products of 
destructive distillation: contradistinguished from educt. 
Direct, genital, organic, etc. , products, see the ad- 
jectives. Homogeneous product, a product of ab- 
stract numbers or quantities of one kind. Product of 
inertia. See inertia. Resolvent product, the product 
fu.fu/'.ft 3 .fu> 4 , where tu is a fifth root of unity and fu = 
x, -(- ux t 4- <a*x 3 + u 3 x t + <u' M the z's being roots of a 
quintlc equation. Skew product, the product of the 
tensors of two vectors into the sine of the angle between 
them, and the whole multiplied by a unit vector perpen- 
dicular to the two vectors and directed in the way in which 
the revolution from the first factor to the second appears 
counter-clockwise. 
productibility (pro-duk-ti-bil'i-ti), n. [< pro- 
ductible + -ity (see -bility).] Capability of be- 
ing produced. [Rare.] 
No produce ever maintains a consistent rate of produc- 
NbilHy. Buskin, Unto This Last, p. :.:(, note. 
productible (pro-duk'ti-bl), a. [< L. produe- 
tu.f, pp. of producere, lead forth, produce (see 
product), + -iblc.] Capable of being produced ; 
producible. [Bare.] 
productile (pro-duk'til), a. [< L. productilig, 
that may be drawn out, < productua, pp. of pro- 
ducere, lead forth, draw out, product : see pro- 
duce, product.] Capable of being extended in 
length. 
production (pro-duk'shon), n. [< F. production 
= Sp. production = Pg. producetto = It. produ- 
:ione, < L. productio(n-), a prolonging, length- 
ening, < producere, pp. productus, lead forth, pro- 
long, produce: see produce, product.] 1. The 
act or process of producing, (a) The act of bring- 
ing forward or adducing. 
Public documents in general must be proved either by 
the production of the original or by the official copies. 
Encyc. Brit, VOL 742. 
(b) The act of making or creating. 
It can also be shown that the production of the two sorts 
of flowers by the same plant has been effected by finely- 
gradnated steps. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 182. 
Certain it Is that hate and destruction are just as ne- 
cessary agents as love and production in nature. 
MaudsUy, Body and Will, xi. p. 239. 
The component elements of production are labour and 
capital, acting by natural forces upon raw material. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 48. 
(c) In polit. econ., the creation of values; the producing 
of articles having an exchangeable value. 
Besides the primary and universal requisites of produc- 
tion, labour and natural agents, there is another requisite, 
. . . namely, a stock, previously accumulated, of the pro- 
ducts of former labour. J. S. Mitt, Pol. Econ., I. iv. { 1. 
2. That which is produced or made ; a product 
of physical or mental labor: specifically, a work 
of literature or art. 
proem 
The Lion and the Leviathan are two of the noblest Pro- 
ductions in this World of living Creatures. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 839. 
We have had our names prefixed at length to whole 
volumes of mean productions. Sv\ft. 
So one, whose story serves at least to show 
Men loved their own productions long ago, 
Woo'd an unfeeling statue for his wife. 
Cowper, Progress of Error, L 527. 
3. In rod'/, and anat., the act of drawing forth or 
out ; the state of being produced (see produced, 
p. a.); extension; protrusion: as, the produc- 
tion of the pike's jaws. 4. pi. In /Scots law, 
in judicial proceedings, written documents or 
other things produced in process iii support 
of the action or defense. interdict for produc- 
tion. Sec interdict, 2. = Byn. 1. Work, performance. - 
1 and t. Produce, Product, Production. Of these only 
production may mean the act of producing. As standing 
for the thing or things produced, produce applies now 
almost exclusively to the raw product* or yield of land : 
as, to bring fresh produce to market. Where Jonathan 
Edwards spoke of regarding "all free actions as the pro- 
duce of free choice,' we should speak now of regarding 
them as the products of free choice, or, better, as Its ef- 
fects. There Is a lingering use of produce in such expres- 
sions as " theproduceof atax," but better now theproduet, 
or, still better, the proceeds. The word Is always collective ; 
we do not speak of a produce. Product and production, on 
the other hand, are particular. I'roduct Is the most gen- 
eral of the three words, but expresses the result of some 
operation, generally, but not necessarily, physical : as, the 
apple Isespeclally an American product ; Oreat Britain ex- 
ports chiefly manufactured products. Thus, the word may 
apply to almost anything where emphasis Is laid upon the 
fact of its being produced by some cause, especially by 
some cause that is named : but, apart from this, the word 
Is applied chiefly to things having a material value, cov- 
ering produce, manufactures, etc. Production applies now 
almost exclusively to the visible results of the operation of 
mind or the handiwork of art, as a book, a poem, an oration, 
a statue, a painting, a piece of needlework the act or fact 
of producing being only subordinate in mind. Product Is 
also a technical word of mathematics, but the others are 
not. 
productive (pro-duk'Hv), a. [= F. produclif = 
Sp. Pg. product ivo = It. produttiro, < L. produc- 
tivug, serving to produce or prolong, (producere, 
pp. productuit, lead forth, produce: see produce , 
product.] 1. Serving to produce; having the 
power of producing: as. an age productive of 
great men. 
Productive In herb, plant, and nobler birth 
Of creatures animate with gradual life. 
Milttm, P. I., Ix. 111. 
Chaste as cold Cynthia's virgin light, 
Productive as the Sun. 
Pope, Choruses to Brutus, II. 
Ileav'n would sure grow weary of a world 
Productive only of a race like ours. 
Coirprr, Task, II. 584. 
2. Fertile; producing abundant crops: as, a 
productive soil. 
Fruitful vales so productive of that grain. Swtft. 
3. In polit. econ., causing or tending to cause 
an increase in the quantity or quality of things 
of value ; causing commodities to possess ex- 
changeable value : as, productive labor. 
The business of transporting merchandise or passengers 
by land or by sea is as much a productive Industry as the 
raising of wheat, the spinning of fibres, or the smelting 
or forging of iron. 
D. A. Wells, Our Merchant Marine, p. 35. 
Productive Imagination. See imagination, l. = Syn, 1 
and 2. Prolific, etc. 8ee/rui(Arf. 
productively (pro-duk'tiv-li), adv. [< produc- 
tive + -fy 2 .] In a productive manner; by pro- 
duction ; with abundant produce. 
productiveness (pro-duk'tiv-nes), H. [< pro- 
ductive + -nerat.] The character of being pro- 
ductive : as, the productiveness of land or labor. 
productivity (pro-duk-tiv'i-ti), n. [< produc- 
tive + -ity.] The power of producing; produc- 
tiveness. 
They have reinforced their own productivity by the cre- 
ation of that marvellous machinery which differences this 
age from any other age. Emerson, Eng. Traits, x. 
Labourers who do not possess the average productivity 
are turned off on the ground that they are unable to do 
minimum day's work. 
Roe, Contemporary Socialism, p. 166. 
productress (pro-duk'tres), n. [< 'productor (< 
LL. productor, one who leads away, one who 
produces, < L. producere, pp. productus, lead 
forth, produce : see produce, product) + -ess.] 
A female who produces. 
proegumenalt (pro-e-gu'me-nal), a. [< Gr. irpo- 
ifioi'urvof, ppr. of irporficiaOat, go first, lead the 
way, < npo, before, + fiyclaOai, lead: see hege- 
mony.] In med., serving to predispose; pre- 
disposing; preceding: as, a proegumenal cause 
of disease. See quotation under procatarctical. 
proem (pro'em), H. [Formerly also proeme; < 
ME. proeme, prorim, ]ir<ili< //. < OF. ]iroeme, 
procsnii . F. jiriii'mr = Sj>. Pg. It. proemio, < L. 
pro&mium, <. Gr. Trpooiutov, Attic ^poiutav, an 
