Spawn

spawn, n. The eggs of fish or frogs when ejected any product or offspring, — in contempt buds or branches produced from underground stems. The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi are produced.— (spawned (spawnd), spawning.] To produce or deposit, as fishes do their eggs; to bring forth, generate, — used contemptuously. — v. To deposit ezgs, as fish or frogs; to i ue, as offspring, — used contemptuously. [ME. spanen, to spawn, prob. OF. espandre, It. spandere, to spill, shed, scatter, L. expand ere, to spread out= E. expand.] — Spawn'er, n. The female fish.