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To bring forth, as young, or as a natural product or growth; to give birth to; to bear; to generate; to propagate; to yield; to furnish; as, the earth produces grass; trees produce fruit; the clouds produce rain. This soil produces all sorts of palm trees. Sandys. [They] produce prodigious births of body or mind. Milto…

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions ar…

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.

In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

To lop; to trim; to prune; to adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

Reproduction by the growth of a plant, or part of a plant, directly from an older one, or by gemmæ.

To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born to promote all truth." Milton.

Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.

To grow; to increase. [Obs.] Black cherry trees prosper even to considerable timber. Evelyn.

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.

The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oöphoric generation of ferns, etc.

The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called " physical basis of life;" the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc.

how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and tend these flowers. Milton.

A superficial growth of vascular tissue radiating in a fanlike manner from the cornea over the surface of the eye.

One of the definite areas of the skin of a bird on which feathers grow; -- contrasted with apteria.

The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence.

Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

oint of vegetation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new growth originates.