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A coming together; sexual intercourse; copulation. Grew.

over; to vault. Of the upper beak an inch and a half consisteth of one concamerated bone. Grew.

is constricted; a narrowing or binding. A constriction of the parts inservient to speech. Grew.

e these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6.

d connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers. Grew. The sight would be tired, if it were attracted by a continuity of glittering objects. Dryden. Law of continuity (Math. & Physics), the principle that nothing passes from one state to another without passing through all the i…

texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid. "Corrosive liquors." Grew. "Corrosive famine."Thomson.

orm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

rce current. Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew.

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

The state of being set with small notches or teeth. Grew.

To wet with dew or as with dew; to bedew; to moisten; as with dew. The grasses grew A little ranker since they dewed them so. A. B. Saxton.

fidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. [Archaic] That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne.

Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

ed from the hair; the stump of a tail; the part of a tail left after clipping or cutting. Grew.

Shattered; infirm. "A laurel grew, doddered with age." Dryden.

nly tell Of arms imagined in your lonely cell. Dryden. He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died. South.

Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex [grew] a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley.