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A growing green or fresh again; renewal of youth or vigor. [Obs.]

A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

One of a proposed class of flowering plants growning on the roots of other plants and destitute of green foliage.

imates, and the grain forms a large portion of the food of the inhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant. -- French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn. -- Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender…

, which affords a valuable timber; -- called also Scotch pine, and red or yellow deal. It grows in all parts of Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia.

Growing stiff or numb.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.

To ripen; to grow ripe. [Obs.]

To grow ripe; to become mature, as grain, fruit, flowers, and the like; as, grapes ripen in the sun.

To grow upward; to attain a certain heght; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet.

Growing; advancing to adult years and to the state of active life; as, the rising generation.

e male is blue throughout. -- Rock tripe (Bot.), a kind of lichen (Umbilicaria Dillenii) growing on rocks in the northen parts of America, and forming broad, flat, coriaceous, dark fuscous or blackish expansions. It has been used as food in cases of extremity. -- Rock trout (Zoöl.), any one of several species of mari…

Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especially Fucus.

actices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden.

Rank in growth. [Prov.Eng.]

The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment…

A bed of roses, or place where roses grow. "Thick rosaries of scented thorn." Tennyson.

A labiate shrub (Rosmarinus officinalis) with narrow grayish leaves, growing native in the southern part of France, Spain, and Italy, also in Asia Minor and in China. It has a fragrant smell, and a warm, pungent, bitterish taste. It is used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. There's…

To grow or become rough.