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A violet dye obtained from several species of lichen (Roccella tinctoria, etc.), which grow on maritime rocks in the Canary and Cape Verd Islands, etc. Tomlinson.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

vision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

Cultivated; not indigenous; not of spontaneous growth; as, artificial grasses. Gibbon. Artificial arguments (Rhet.), arguments invented by the speaker, in distinction from laws, authorities, and the like, which are called inartificial arguments or proofs. Johnson. -- Artificial classification (Science), an arrangement…

In a slanting direction over; athwart. There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.

To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach. If by any means they might attain to Phenice. Acts xxvii. 12. Nor nearer might the dogs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to po…

To become thin, slender, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts. Coleridge.

To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli.

An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.

A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth. Walton.

is incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.

Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.

Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs. [Archaic] Shak.

Tending or proceeding away from the base; as, a basifugal growth.