Obs. [OE. túddor, túdor neut.; of uncertain origin. Cf. TIDDER v.1] Progeny, offspring.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregorys Past. C., xv. 97. Ðonne mæʓ he cennan mid ðam ðæt tuder ryhtes ʓeðohtes.
a. 1000. Ags. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 238/5. Foetus, i. fructus, partus, filius, tudder, soboles.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Saints Lives, xxxiii. 314. He þa feoll and cwæð Eufrosina cristes bryd and haliʓra manna tuddor ne beo þu forgitende þinra efenþeowa.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 166. Sona hyt þæt tuddur ut asendeþ.
c. 1050. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 467/24. Propago, tudor oððe cyn.
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 177. Deor and fishshes and fuȝeles and here tuder.