Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GEN-ER-A'TION, n.

1. The act of begetting; procreation, as of animals.
2. Production; formation; as, the generation of sounds, or of curves or equations.
3. A single succession in natural descent, as the children of the same parents; hence, an age. Thus we say, the third, the fourth, or the tenth generation. Gen. xv.16.
4. The people of the same period, or living at the same time. O faithless and perverse generation. Luke ix.
5. Genealogy; a series of children or descendants from the same stock. This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen. v.
6. A family; a race. Shak.
7. Progeny; offspring. Shak.