Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for OFF'SPRING
OFF'SETOF'FUS-CATE, or OF-FUS-CA'TION
OFF'SPRING, n. [off and spring.]
- A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts xvii. Rev. xxii.
- Propagation; generation. Hooker.
- Production of any kind. Denham.
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