Off"spring` (?), n.sing. & pl. [Off + spring.]
1.
The act of production; generation.
[Obs.]
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.
[Obs.]
Fairfax.
© Webster 1913.