v. Obs. rare. [f. TO-1 + GROW v.] intr. To grow to or towards (something).

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1422.  trans. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv., 230. Tho that haue a longe heede, and the eeris to-growynge to the forhede negh to the noose.

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  Hence † To-growing, a. vbl. sb., a growth, an excrescence; b. ppl. a., growing on, attached.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 31. The iuice … healeth outwaxynges or to growinges in the fleshe. Ibid., 70 b. Ornithogalum is a tendre stalk … with ij. or thre togrowyng branches in ye top.

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  [But in these the prefix is perh. TO-2.]

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