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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Produce  \Pro*duce"\,  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}.] 
  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. 
 
  Produce  your  cause  saith  the  Lord.  --Isa.  xli. 
  21. 
 
  Your  parents  did  not  produce  you  much  into  the 
  world.  --Swift. 
 
  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. 
 
  This  soil  produces  all  sorts  of  palm  trees. 
  --Sandys. 
 
  [They]  produce  prodigious  births  of  body  or  mind.  -- 
  Milton. 
 
  The  greatest  jurist  his  country  had  produced. 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  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. 
 
  4.  To  give  being  or  form  to  to  manufacture;  to  make  as  a 
  manufacturer  produces  excellent  wares. 
 
  5.  To  yield  or  furnish;  to  gain;  as  money  at  interest 
  produces  an  income;  capital  produces  profit. 
 
  6.  To  draw  out  to  extend;  to  lengthen;  to  prolong;  as  to 
  produce  a  man's  life  to  threescore.  --Sir  T.  Browne. 
 
  7.  (Geom.)  To  extend;  --  applied  to  a  line  surface,  or 
  solid;  as  to  produce  a  side  of  a  triangle. 

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