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Rille (medicine) and engender (iou)


Rille (medicine)


rille
<astronomy> One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.

Origin: G. Rille a furrow.

Source: Websters Dictionary


engender (iou)



engender verb. Also ingender. ME.
[Old & mod. French engendrer from Latin ingenerare, formed as IN-2 + generare GENERATE verb.]
verb trans.
a. Of a male: beget (offspring). arch. ME.
b. Of a female: conceive; bear. ME-L17.
c. Of parents or ancestors, countries, situations, etc.: produce (living beings). LME.
verb trans. Give rise to, bring about, (a state of affairs, a quality, feeling, etc.). ME.
Dryden Immoderate Study engenders a grossness in the Mind. A. Storr A basic mistrust engendered by the circumstances of his early childhood.
Produce in the course of Nature; generate, develop, (a natural product). LME-L18.
verb intrans. Have sexual intercourse, copulate, (with); breed, procreate. LME-E19.
verb intrans. Come into being, arise, originate. LME-M19.
Dryden Thick clouds are spread, and storms engender there.
verb trans. Contract (a disease). E16-E17.
engenderer noun LME.
engenderment noun (a) development, origin; (b) the action of engendering: L16.