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Overgrown with moss.

To surpass in growing; to grow more than. Shak.

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

To grow over; to cover with growth or herbage, esp. that which is rank. The green . . . is rough and overgrown. Sir W. Scott.

Excessive growth.

To grow again. The snail had power to regrow them all [horns, tongue, etc.] A. B. Buckley.

The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.

To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height. Wyclif.

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees. Milton.

To grow up. [R.] Milton.

The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.

One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n.

The white polar (Populus alba). Six abeles i' the churchyard grow. Mrs. Browning.

In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

ds for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequent…

To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of; as, to accelerate the growth of a plant, the increase of wealth, etc.

iring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.

taneous motion or impulse to act; -- preceded by own; as, of one's own accord. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap. Lev. xxv. 5. Of his own accord he went unto you. 2 Cor. vii. 17.

To increase; to grow. [Obs.] Gillespie.