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Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden.

Moving. [R.] Grew.

Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. Grew.

To increase in extent and influence; to spread. The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24.

The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.

her world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.

Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew.

ure; as, obscene language; obscene pictures. Words that were once chaste, by frequent use grew obscene and uncleanly. I. Watts.

orchestral accompaniment, but without action, scenery, or costume, although the oratorio grew out of the Mysteries and the Miracle and Passion plays, which were acted.

Organic structure; organization. "The advantageous organism of the eye." Grew.

Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc. Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. De Quincey.

Toward the outside. [R.] Grew.

ction of any kind; -- followed by with or from. Celia, for thy sake, I part With all that grew so near my heart. Waller. Powerful hands . . . will not part Easily from possession won with arms. Milton. It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son. A. Trollope.…

To journey; to wander; to ramble. [R.] Grew. Carlyle.

Plane or flat on one side, and conical on the other. Grew.

ct; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

A porringer. [Obs.] Grew.

ssy and positive; meddlesome. "Pragmatical officers of justice." Sir W. Scott. The fellow grew so pragmatical that he took upon him the government of my whole family. Arbuthnot.

or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff. Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew. Dryden.

corn, barley, hops, etc.; toraise cattle. "He raised sheep." "He raised wheat where none grew before." Johnson's Dict.