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▪ I. growing, vbl. n.|ˈgrəʊɪŋ|
[f. grow v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. grow.
a. in intransitive senses. (Also with up.)
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 347 Þei [Apostles]..traveiliden more bisili to growyng & profiting of þe Chirche. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxx. (1495) 140 The growyng and fedyng of nayles is lyke to the growynge of here. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Pet. 7 The ghospels doctryne hath his principles, it hath his infancy,..it hath also his farther growinges. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. x. 288 Thus a Saint of God, like an oke, may be cut down in a moment; but how many years was he a growing! 1719De Foe Crusoe i. vi. (1840) 105 The growing up of the corn. 1818Art Preserv. Feet 182 A nail which bends down⁓wards and grows in that position, produces one species of what is commonly called ‘growing into the flesh’. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. iv. §53 (1875) 174 A growing up to the recognition of certain truths. 1869Morris Earthly Par. ii. 210 In the orchard hangs aloft The purple fig, a-growing soft. Mod. ‘All a-blowing, all a-growing’ (London flower-seller's cry).
b. in transitive senses.
1889Daily News 21 Jan. 5/4 Trial growings of new sorts, side by side with established varieties.
†2.
a. Growth; the faculty, period, or process of growth. Rarely pl. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. I. 35 Man of soule resonable..lich to beste he hath feling And lich to tres he hath growing. c1430Hymns Virg. 19 Wiþ trees and gras þou ȝaf us growinge. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §127 If the hedge be of x. or xii. yeres growing syth it was first set. 1560–1Bk. Discipline Ch. Scot. (1621) Pref., To consider the different conditions of the Kirk in her infancie, in her growing and in her ripe age.
†b. concr. A growth, a crop. Obs.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. xi. 13–16 To whome [womanne] of nature is gyuen a more thicke and more large growyng of heare, than to the manne. 1722Wodrow Ch. Hist. iii. iii. II. 76 His Master took from him Nine Cows..with all the Crop and Growing of that Year.
†3. In nonce-uses:
a. Interest on money advanced.
b. Advance, progress. Obs.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 431 b/1 To paye or yelde to them theyr usure or growyng. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. i. 16 Your patience this allowing, I turne my glasse, and giue my Scene such growing As you had slept betweene.
†4. growing-to: see grow v. 5 b.
5. attrib. and Comb., as growing-age, growing-period, growing-place, growing-region, growing-season, growing-time; growing-cell, a microscope-slide on which minute objects are kept growing in water; growing-on, the cultivating of seedlings, the breeding of young chicks, etc., to maturity or full size; growing pains (see quot. 1886); also fig.; growing point (see quot.); also fig.; growing season, the season when rainfall and temperature permit plants to grow; growing-slide = growing-cell; growing stock Forestry, the total quantity of trees in an area; growing weather, weather adapted to further the growth of plants; growing zone, the region of an annelid worm in which growth or regeneration is initiated.
Growing weather might belong to growing ppl. a. (cf. quot. 1782 there).
1881H. James Portr. Lady xxi, A plain muslin gown, too short for the wearer, and denoting that she was at the so called ‘*growing’ age.
1867J. Hogg Microsc. i. iii. 198 *Growing-cells.
1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 150/2 A new popular system for *growing-on from 8 to 10 weeks to laying stage. 1960Jrnl. R. Hort. Soc. LXXXV. 89 Cost can also be reduced by purchasing small specimens and growing on. 1962J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 354/2 Growing-on-house, a greenhouse used for growing potted plants from the small plant stage to maturity.
1810Coleridge Notes & Lect. (1874) 79 In the third [class], as indicating a greater energy..yet still with some of the *growing-pains, and the awkwardness of growth—I place—Troilus and Cressida [etc.]. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Growing pains, the neuralgic pains in the limbs which are not uncommon in young persons during the period of growth. 1915A. Huxley Let. Oct. (1969) 80 Germany seems to be like..a new growing country, swelled with its own pride, filled by its growing pains with an immense folie de grandeur. 1923J. M. Murry Pencillings 70 The struggles of a generation towards complete rationality..are growing pains.
1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 162 New formation and regeneration are continually taking place during life, even after completion of the *growing period.
1551Turner Herbal i. A iv b, Pliny writeth of the *growyng place of this herbe thus..This groweth in the sea.
1835J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) i. ii. 56 They [sc. the leaf-buds] consist of scales imbricated over each other..and surrounding a minute cellular axis, or *growing point. 1880S. H. Vines tr. Prantl's Elem. Textbk. Bot. ii. 64 The growing end or apex of an organ, such as a root or a stem, is called the growing-point (punctum vegetationis). 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 138 The terminal portion of an organ with permanent apical growth, consisting entirely of primary meristem, is termed the Growing Point or ‘Punctum Vegetationis’. 1948Mind LVII. 103, I shall..indicate what seem to me the growing points in his theory. 1959Listener 15 Jan. 108/2 Muir..had truly perceived where lay the growing⁓point of poetry in our time. 1962Punch 28 Feb. 343/2 Secondary Modern..is undoubtedly one of the ‘growing points’ in English education.
1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. xii. 282 This *growing-region often continues active throughout life. 1958Brocklehurst & Ward Gen. School Biol. 146 (caption) Growing region of a root.
1845Florist's Jrnl. 61 We advise a decided difference in the supply at the *growing season and afterwards. 1924W. S. Jones Timbers i. 5 The process [of tissue growth] continues throughout the growing season. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 526 The incidence of small lakes may increase the growing season for crops.
1856W. B. Carpenter Microscope 144 A small addition may be conveniently made to the glass stage-plate, which adapts it for use as a *Growing-slide.
1889W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. i. i. 15 The capital employed in forestry consists principally of the soil and the *growing stock of wood. 1967D. R. Johnston et al. Forest Planning xviii. 287 The level of the growing stock is clearly an important factor in thinning.
14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 736/41 Hoc ver, *groyngtyme. c1440Lydg. Secrees 1301 The growyng tyme and the yong sonne; I mene the sesoun whan veer is be gonne.
1794Trans. Soc. Arts XII. 137 The first *growing weather in March and April.
1921Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. CCXI. 145 There were behind this four segments with setæ, one without setæ and a *growing zone. 1952Biol. Rev. XXVII. 408 The posterior residual growing zone itself grows progressively more slowly.
▪ II. growing, ppl. a.|ˈgrəʊɪŋ|
[f. grow v. + -ing2.]
That grows, in senses of the vb. (Also with up.) growing pay, growing wages (see quot. 1867).
a900Kent. Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 66/23 Uirens folium, growende leaf. a1000Cædmon's Gen. 890 (Gr.) Hwæt druᵹe þu, dohtor..growendra ᵹifa. c1587Let. All Souls' Coll. in Collect. (O.H.S.) I. 211 Expences, which..are to be defrayed by our woodes as by a growinge treasure. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 46 If thou may with reason yet represse The growing evill, ere it strength have gott. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 18 Hewne and framed out of the rocke or growing stone. 1703Rowe Ulyss. v. i. 1878 Each moment brings the growing Danger nearer. 1744–50W. Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VIII. i. 44 The great Stones that we call growing Stones, composed of vast Numbers of small Pebbles that lie in little Cells or Holes. 1782Barker in Phil. Trans. LXXII. 282 Soon after April came in, the weather was fine and growing, sometimes showery. 1783Burke Rep. Affairs Ind. Wks. XI. 278 This receipt of sums of money, under colour of gift, seemed a growing evil. 1804Nelson in Nicholas Disp. (1846) VI. 126 You are to inquire whether blame is to be attached to any individual for the said loss, in order that it may be charged against his growing wages. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. To Rdr. 3 The growing practice of maintaining large standing armies in times of peace. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man 31 It seems..to have been surrounded by growing trees. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Growing pay, that which succeeds the dead-horse, or pay in prospect. 1868Helps Realmah v. (1869) 87 He has growing up boys to deal with. 1889J. S. Burdon-Sanderson in Nature 26 Sept. 523 A growing organism is not the same to-day as it was yesterday.
Hence ˈgrowingly adv., increasingly; ˈgrowingness rare, the characteristic quality of a growing plant; in quot. fig.
1758S. Hayward Serm. Introd. 10 He seems to have been growingly solicitous to advance the interest of religion. 1869I. Burns Life W. C. Burns iv. (1870) 85 The result was seen in a growingly heightened tone of moral and religious life. 1872Contemp. Rev. XIX. 211 Every one..must have been growingly persuaded that its investigations were destined to bring out results of deep interest. 1894Sat. Rev. 3 Mar. 231 There is a rapid fresh growingness in it [a novel]. |