procreant

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No jutty frieze,          Buttrice, nor coigne of 'vantage, but this bird          Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle:          Where they most breed and haunt, I have observ'd,          The air is delicate.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Johnson, Samuel

Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

During the season of incubation and brood rearing the nuthatches retire to the depth of the woods, and are quiet, secretive, and unsocial, seldom betraying their procreant secrets.

From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a wheat-field, suspended in the head of a thistle.

From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert

Let some procreant truth exhale From me, before my forces fail; Or ere the ecstatic impulse go, Let all my buds to blossoms blow.

From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence