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uding Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical America, which grow to be six inches in length.

To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.

f all kinds, including gravel, clay, loam, and the like; sometimes, soil favorable to the growth of plants; the visible surface of the globe; the ground; as, loose earth; rich earth. Give him a little earth for charity. Shak.

A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to:

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

e prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich. [Written also economise.] Milton.

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

To grow womanish or weak. In a slothful peace both courage will effeminate and manners corrupt. Pope.

To age; to grow old. [Obs.]

s have often to express themselves upon paper. W. Irving. The embarrassments tom commerce growing out of the late regulations. Bancroft.

The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

od current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

Growing out.

Any unusual outgrowth from the surface of a thing, as of a petal; also, the capacity or act of producing such an outgrowth.

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.

A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mos…