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The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

Club-shaped; having the form of a club; growing gradually thicker toward the top.

A callous growth, esp. one the foot; a corn.

d by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

tted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

To grow cloudy; to become obscure with clouds; -- often used with up. Worthies, away! The scene begins to cloud. Shak.

A species of raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

Covered with growing clover. Flocks thick nibbling through the clovered vale. Thomson.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

n; disorder; as, the room is in a clutter. He saw what a clutter there was with huge, overgrown pots, pans, and spits. L'Estrange.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.

The axis on which the kernels of maize or indian corn grow. [U. S.]

A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tr…

erries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabia, Persia, and other warm regions of Asia and Africa, and also in tropical America.

deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. Addison.