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Increasing in size by growth on all sides, as the lichens.

t or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

A year old; in Yearly growths.

Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usually an upward growth and distinct leaves.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

Destructive to, or hindering the growth of, diphtheria bacilli. -- n.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

ing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

To impair; to grow worse. [Obs.]

To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged. [Obs.] Gower.

he name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie.

To grow like an apple; to bear apples. Holland.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to water growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Pertaining to, or growing on, trees; as, arboreous moss. Quincy.

(Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

The vital principle or force which (according to the Paracelsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.