Grow (?), v. t. 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.
Grow (grō), v. i. [imp.
Grew (gr&udd;); p.
p. Grown
(grōn); p. pr. & vb. n. Growing.]
[AS.
grōwan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel.
grōa, Dan.
groe, Sw. gro. Cf. Green, Grass.] 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.
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