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An overgrown knot, or an excrescence, on a tree; also, veneer made from such excrescences.

s. Camelia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, and C. Sassanqua and C. Oleifera are grown in China for the oil which is pressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genus under the name of Camellia Thea.

Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

n holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvæ, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird.

The bark of several species of Cinnamommum grown in China, etc.; Chinese cinnamon. It is imported as cassia, but commonly sold as cinnamon, from which it differs more or less in strength and flavor, and the amount of outer bark attached.

Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n.

ger) which approaches more nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

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.

A cake yeast made by filtering the cells from the liquid in which they are grown, subjecting to heavy pressure, and mixing with starch or flour.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

rior or surface of bread, in distinction from the soft part or crumb; or a piece of bread grown dry or hard.

t. [Obs.] God commits the managing so great a trust . . . wholly to the demeanor of every grown man. Milton.

owing in India, highly valued for its size and beauty as well as for its timber, and also grown in England as an ornamental tree.

The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

d, to the moral character and habits, to institutions, the state, etc. Diseases desperate grown, By desperate appliances are relieved. Shak. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public counsels have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have every where perished. M…

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

n atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. South.

A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll. Encyc. Brit.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in…