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Growing into herbs.

Emitting sparks of fire when struck with steel; scintillating; as, ignescent stones.

Not acquiescent or acquiescing.

Growing warm; increasing in heat.

White, glowing, or luminous, with intense heat; as, incandescent carbon or platinum; hence, clear; shining; brilliant. Holy Scripture become resplendent; or, as one might say, incandescent throughout. I. Taylor. Incandescent lamp or light (Elec.), a kind of lamp in which the light is produced by a thin filament of cond…

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.

Not effervescing, or not susceptible of effervescence; quiescent.

Swelling up; expanding.

s like the rainbow; exhibiting a play of changeable colors; nacreous; prismatic; as, iridescent glass.

Growing or becoming young.

Having a milky look; becoming milky. [Obs.]

Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.

Slightly withdrawn from view or knowledge; as, a latescent meaning. Sir W. Hamilton.

Tending to become liquid; inclined to melt to melt; melting.

Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.

Of a yellowish color.

Withering without

Approaching maturity.