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 matturity 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 of 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.