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p. p. of Grow.

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

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

Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.

Having lungs that adhere to the pleura.

Overgrown with moss.

Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

ds for a thing; an abstract name which stands for an attribute of a thing. A practice has grown up in more modern times, which, if not introduced by Locke, has gained currency from his example, of applying the expression "abstract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequent…

Grown together. Gray.

nally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Grown to congenitally.

A person, animal, or plant grown to full size and strength; one who has reached maturity.

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.

especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.

A genus of plants, mostly of tropical America, many species of which are grown as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.

The peepul tree; esp., the very ancient tree standing at Anurajahpoora in Ceylon, grown from a slip of the tree under which Gautama is said to have received the heavenly light and so to have become Buddha. The sacred bo tree of the Buddhists (Ficus religiosa), which is planted close to every temple, and attracts almost…

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton.

, wearisome, or oppressive. Deaf, giddy, helpless, left alone, To all my friends a burden grown. Swift.