Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Grow \Grow\, v. i. [imp. {Grew}; p. p. {Grown ; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Growing}.] [AS. grawan; akin to D. groeijen, Icel. groa,
   Dan. groe, Sw. gro. Cf. {Green}, {Grass}.]
   1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to
      increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter
      into the living organism; -- said of animals and
      vegetables and their organs.

   2. To increase in any way; to become larger 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.

   3. To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be
      produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice
      grows in warm countries.

            Where law faileth, error groweth.     --Gower.

   4. To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect
      from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale.

            For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.
                                                  --Byron.

   5. To become attached of fixed; to adhere.

            Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.
                                                  --Shak.

   {Growing cell}, or {Growing slide}, a device for preserving
      alive a minute object in water continually renewed, in a
      manner to permit its growth to be watched under the
      microscope.

   {Grown over}, covered with a growth.

   {To grow out of}, to issue from, as plants from the soil, or
      as a branch from the main stem; to result from.

            These wars have grown out of commercial
            considerations.                       --A. Hamilton.

   {To grow up}, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as,
      grown up children.