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Frowning; scowling. [Obs.] Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

Musty. rancid; as, frowy butter. "Frowy feed." Spenser

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.

Any trench, channel, or groove, as in wood or metal; a wrinkle on the face; as, the furrows of age. Farrow weed a weed which grows on plowed land. Shak. -- To draw a straight furrow, to live correctly; not to deviate from the right line of duty. Lowell.

Furrowed. [R.] Tennyson.

The carrion crow; -- called also gercrow. [Prov. Eng.]

Overgrown with grass; as, a grass-grown road.

and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak.

Capable of growth.

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.

To express by growling. Thomson.

One who growls.

In a growling manner.

p. p. of Grow.

To shiver; to have chills. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Ray.

The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the grow…

A lazy person; a blockhead. [Obs.] Tusser.

Having capacity of growth. [R.] J. Hamilton.