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Continuous growth; an accretion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

Growing; increasing. Shuckford.

To grow together.

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. Arbuthnot.

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth. Glanvill.

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Goldsmith.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

bs.] The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be. Hooker.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth. Evelyn.

To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain. "Their eggs were addled." Cowper.

e state of being attached; intimate union; as the adhesion of glue, or of parts united by growth, cement, or the like.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Grown to congenitally.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.