offspring (of spring)

[ Certainly the prime antiquity of off - spring is always given to the Scythians. Raleigh , Hist. World, I. v. 7. Nor was her princely off - spring damnified, Or aught disparaged by those labours base. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o, vii. 18. 2t. Propagation; generation. Hooker .-3. Pro- geny; descendants, however remote from the stock; i ue: a collective term, applied to sev- eral or all descendants (sometimes, exception- ally, to collateral branches), or to one child if the sole descendant. I wolde that Brad monde the kyng Were here with all his ospryng . MS. Cantab. Ff. i. 38, f. 109. ( Hall i well .) The male children, with all the whole male offspring , con- tinue in their own family, and be governed of the Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 5.