growing cell

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

2.To increase in any way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. [1913 Webster]

Winter began to grow fast on.— Knolles.[1913 Webster]

Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. [1913 Webster]

Where law faileth, error groweth.— Gower.[1913 Webster]

4.To pass from one state to another; to result as an effect from a cause; to become; as, to grow pale. [1913 Webster]

For his mind Had grown Suspicion's sanctuary.— Byron.[1913 Webster]

5.To become attached or fixed; to adhere. [1913 Webster]

Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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

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

To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. --Howells.

Syn: To become; increase; enlarge; augment; improve; expand; extend. [1913 Webster]