Hypertext Webster Gateway: "growing"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Grow \Grow\, v. i. [imp. {Grew}; p. p. {Grown ; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Growing}.] [AS. grawan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. groa,
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 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

growing
adj 1: increasing in size or degree or amount; "her growing
popularity"; "growing evidence of a world depression";
"a growing city"; "growing businesses"
2: having or showing vigorous vegetal or animal life;
"flourishing crops"; "flourishing chicks"; "a growing
boy"; "fast-growing weeds"; "a thriving deer population"
[syn: {flourishing}, {thriving}]
3: relating to or suitable for growth; "the growing season for
corn"; "good growing weather"
n 1: the process of an individual organism growing organically; a
purely biological unfolding of events involved in an
organism changing gradually from a simple to a more
complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous
development in children" [syn: {growth}, {maturation}, {development},
{ontogeny}, {ontogenesis}] [ant: {nondevelopment}]
2: (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by
slow crystallization from the molten state


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