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spawnTo launch another program from the current program. The child program is spawned from the parent program. spawn 1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs 2. Botany the nontechnical name for mycelium spawn [spȯn] (botany) Mycelium used for initiating mushroom propagation. (zoology) The collection of eggs deposited by aquatic animals, such as fish. To produce or deposit eggs or discharge sperm; applied to aquatic animals.
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No more than your work people mean here, whose crowning stupidity is their continuing to beget more stupid spawn for the slavery of the masters. "Some cursed witch must have stolen my brother's child from the cradle and put that spawn of a starved devil in its place," Dominic would say to me. Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life, he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net - to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow. |
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