Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Grow

Grow (grō) , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon grōwan; akin to Dutch groeijen, Icelandic grōa, Danish groe, Swedish gro. Compare 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. — Shakespeare
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.
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 or fixed; to adhere.
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow. — Shakespeare
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations. — A. Hamilton

Grow (grō) , transitive verb

To cause to grow; to cultivate; to produce; as, to grow a crop; to grow wheat, hops, or tobacco. — Macaulay