Dictionary entry

Offspring

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Off″spring′ (?), n. sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]

1. The act of production; generation.

2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.

To the gods alone

Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden.

3. Origin; lineage; family. Fairfax.