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Grow

Grow (grow)
v. i.(gr1913 webster dictionary)
Grow
[imp. Grew (gr***udd]); p. p. Grown (gr1913 webster dictionaryn); p. pr. *** vb. n. Growing.] [AS. gr&omacr]wan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. gr1913 webster dictionarya,
  1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs.
  2. To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue.

    Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles.

    Even just the sum that I do owe to you
    Is growing to me by Antipholus.     Shak.

  3. To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries.

    Where law faileth, error groweth. Gower.

  4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

    For his mind
    Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.     Byron.

  5. To become attached or fixed; to adhere.

    Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. Shak.

    Growing cell, or Growing slide, a device for preserving alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a manner to permit its growth to be watched under the microscope. -- Grown over, covered with a growth. -- To grow out of, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem; to result from.

    These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. A. Hamilton.

    -- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children. -- To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells.

    Syn. -- To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend.

Grow

Grow (grow)
v. t.(?)
Grow
  1. To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.
    Macaulay.

    Syn. -- To raise; to cultivate. See Raise, v. t., 3.













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