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nception, but before the birth of the offspring. The female . . . is said to superfetate. Grew.

efly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc. Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.

The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent. And the maize field grew and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.

Theorematic. Grew.

r; to tip. The trunk of the body is kept from tilting forward by the muscles of the back. Grew.

The badger made his dark and tortuous hole on the side of every hill where the copsewood grew thick. Macaulay.

ged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid. Boyle.

See Tussock. Grew.

To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo. Grew.

Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.

Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.

Affected with vertigo; giddy; dizzy. They [the angels] grew vertiginous, and fell from the battlements of heaven. Jer. Taylor. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ly, adv. -- Ver*tig"i*nous*ness, n.

The act or power of vomiting. Grew.

ys in woe and pain. Milton. Wasted by such a course of life, the infirmities of age daily grew on him. Robertson.

the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment. And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. Gen. xxi. 8.

Texture. [Obs.] Grew.

position. [R.] A point hath no dimensions, but only a whereness, and is next to nothing. Grew.

One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parli…

s when women, wondrous fond of place. Pope. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold. Coleridge.