Spawn

v. t.	1.	To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. [imp. & p. p. Spawned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spawning.]
	2.	To bring forth; to generate; - used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. - Fuller.
v. i.	1.	To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
	2.	To issue, as offspring; - used contemptuously.
n.	1.	The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
	2.	Any product or offspring; - used contemptuously.
	3.	(Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
	4.	(Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. Spawn eater (Zool.) a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.

Noun	1.	spawn - the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
Verb	1.	spawn - call forth Synonyms: breed, engender
	2.	spawn - lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

(operating system)

spawn - To create a child process in a multitasking operating system. E.g. Unix's fork system call or one of the spawn() library routines provided by most MS-DOS, Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers - spawnl(), spawnle(), etc.

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