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- verb Archaic spelling of
grow .
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Examples
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It is so fun to see that you growe a lot of plant that we have to “ower here”.
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I have often tymes assayed, that zif a man kepe hem with a litylle of the roche, and wete hem with May dew ofte sithes, thei schulle growe everyche zeer; and the smale wole wexen grete.
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And as thei growe into yeres, an accompt is required of them how well thei haue borne awaie the lessons of their childhode.
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For they are of opinion that all diseases growe of superfluite of meate, and that kinde of cure therfore to be beste, that riddeth the grounde of the griefe.
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They suffre theyr heares to growe and couer them with prety forked cappes somwhat mytrelyke.
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Aboute that See growethe moche alom and of alkatram. 94 Betwene Jerico and that see is the lond of Dengadde; and there was wont to growe the bawme; but men make drawe the braunches there of, and beren hem to ben graffed at Babiloyne; and zit men clepen hem vynes of Gaddy.
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But if I could be possessed of her, I should growe more glorious, then the common condition of a mortall man, and have her I will, or loose my life in the adventure.
The Decameron 2004
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And before that chirche, is a gret tree, that began to growe the same nyght.
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Also bezonde that flomme, more upward to the desertes, is a gret pleyn alle gravelly betwene the mountaynes: and in that playn, every day at the sonne risynge, begynnen to growe smale trees; and thei growen til mydday, berynge frute: but no man dar taken of that frute; for it is a thing of fayrye.
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If a wenche, they streighte ceared the pappes, that thei might not growe to hindre them in the warres.
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