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Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

ler than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Cæsalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C.Bonducella, bluish gray. [Spelt also neckar nut, nickar nut.]

Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.

Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

r. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

nd the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P. Henderson.

To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

The central part around which additional growths are added, as of an operculum.

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. "Fair Padua, nursery of arts." Shak. Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven. J. M. Mason.

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n.

That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

hole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.

Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

remark. "That's a foolish observation." Shak. To observations which ourselves we make We grow more partial for the observer's sake. Pope.

The acid, olive-shaped, drupaceous fruit of a species of tupelo (Nyssa capitata) which grows in swamps in Georgia and Florida.

tree. Let not old age disgrace my high desire. Sir P. Sidney. The melancholy news that we grow old. Young.

To grow old; to age. [R.] She had oldened in that time. Thackeray.