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A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops.

ot wall (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the…

A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.

, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.

An increase in, or excessive growth of, the normal elements of any part.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

Exhibiting a downward convexity caused by unequal growth. Cf. Epinastic.

To plant, or infix, for the purpose of growth; to fix deeply; to instill; to inculate; to introduce; as, to implant the seeds of virtue, or the principles of knowledge, in the minds of youth. Minds well implanted with solid . . . breeding. Milton.

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc. I look upon your city as the best place of improvement. South. Exercise is the chief source of improvement in all our faculties. Blair.…

ement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth. As if increase of appetite had grown By what if fed on. Shak. For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than its…

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

otent. Boyle. The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders. Burke.

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

consisting in congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration. His folly and his wisdom are of his oun growth, not the echo or infusion of other men. Swift.

o unite; to combine. With a willingness inleague our blood With his, for purchase of full growth in friendship. Ford.

A dense growth of brushwood, grasses, reeds, vines, etc.; an almost impenetrable thicket of trees, canes, and reedy vegetation, as in India, Africa, Australia, and Brazil. The jungles of India are of bamboos, canes, and other palms, very difficult to penetrate. Balfour (Cyc. of India). Jungle bear (Zoöl.), the aswail o…

. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.