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Grow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense grew; participle passive grown. [Latin cresco.]

2. To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man.

3. He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Psalms 104:14 .

4. To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates.

5. To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil.

6. To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation.

7. To advance; to extend. His reputation is growing.

8. To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.

9. To come forward; to advance. [Not much used.]

10. Winter began to grow fast on.

11. To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich.

12. To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.

13. To accrue; to come.

14. Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra 4:22 .

15. To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest.

16. To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem.

17. These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.

18. To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity.

19. To grow up,

20. To grow together, To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.

21. GROW , signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less.

22. Marriages grow less frequent.

23. [To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.]

Grow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To produce; to raise; as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. [This is a modern abusive use of grow but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years, we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.]

Grow [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.

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

5. To become attached of fixed; to adhere.

Grow [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco.

Growable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of growth.

Growan [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

Grower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who grows; that which increases.

2. In English use, one who raises or produces.

Grower [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

Growing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Increasing; advancing in size or extent; becoming; accruing; swelling; thriving.

Growing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Growl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The murmur of a cross dog.

Growl [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To murmur or snarl, as a dog; to utter an angry, grumbling sound.

Growl [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To express by growling.

Growl [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.

Growl [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.

Growl [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To express by growling.

Growled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Growler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A snarling cur; a grumbler.

Growler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who growls.

2. The large-mouthed black bass.

3. A four-wheeled cab.

Growling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Grumbling; snarling.

Growling [Present participle and verbal noun e] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Growlingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a growling manner.

Grown [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. of grow. Advanced; increased in growth.

2. Having arrived at full size or stature; as a grown woman.

3. GROWN over, covered by the growth of any thing; overgrown.

Grown Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Grown [Past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Growse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To shiver; to have chills. [Not used.]

Growse [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To shiver; to have chills.

Growth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The gradual increase of animal and vegetable bodies; the process of springing from a germ, seed or root, and proceeding to full size, by the addition of matter, through ducts and secretory vessels. In plants, vegetation. We speak of slow growth and rapid growth; of early growth; late growth and full growth

2. Product; produce; that which has grown; as a fine growth of wood.

3. Production; any thing produced; as a poem of English growth

4. Increase in number, bulk or frequency.

5. Increase in extent or prevalence; as the growth of trade; the growth of vice.

6. Advancement; progress; improvement; as growth in grace or piety.

Growth [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth.

2. That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.

Growthead [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. GROWT'HEAD

2. GROWT'NOL noun

3. A kind of fish.

4. A lazy person; a lubber.

Growthead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A lazy person; a blockhead.

Growthful [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having capacity of growth.

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Genesis 2:9

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 38:11

Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he die also, as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father’s house.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

Genesis 38:14

And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.

she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

Genesis 41:22

And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

In my dream I also saw seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, growing on a single stalk.

Genesis 48:16

The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

the angel who has redeemed me from all harm— may He bless these boys. And may they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a multitude upon the earth.”

Exodus 2:10

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

Exodus 2:11

And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

Exodus 9:32

But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

but the wheat and spelt were not destroyed, because they are late crops.)

Exodus 10:5

And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:

They will cover the face of the land so that no one can see it. They will devour whatever is left after the hail and eat every tree that grows in your fields.

Leviticus 13:37

But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.

Leviticus 13:39

Then the priest shall look: and, behold, if the bright spots in the skin of their flesh be darkish white; it is a freckled spot that groweth in the skin; he is clean.

the priest shall examine them, and if the spots are dull white, it is a harmless rash that has broken out on the skin; the person is clean.

Leviticus 25:5

That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land.

You are not to reap the aftergrowth of your harvest or gather the grapes of your untended vines. The land must have a year of complete rest.

Leviticus 25:7

And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.

and for your livestock and the wild animals in your land. All its growth may serve as food.

Leviticus 25:11

A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.

The fiftieth year will be a Jubilee for you; you are not to sow the land or reap its aftergrowth or harvest the untended vines.

Numbers 6:5

All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.

For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

Deuteronomy 8:13

And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

Deuteronomy 28:32

Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Your sons and daughters will be given to another nation, while your eyes grow weary looking for them day after day, with no power in your hand.

Deuteronomy 29:23

And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.

Deuteronomy 32:15

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Judges 16:22

Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.