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▪ I. ˈoutˌgrowing, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
The action of growing out; concr. a sprout; an outgrowth.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 60 b, If you plucke away the tayles and the outgrowings when you see them. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 68 Apply it..to all superfluous outgrowing of flesh. 1587Golding De Mornay xi. 162 Thy nailes and the heares of thy head, which are but outgroings, and not parts of thy bodie.
▪ II. ˈoutˌgrowing, ppl. a.
[out- 10.]
Growing forth; growing outward, protruding.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. ii. 99 Pruned and trimmed from the out-growing sprigges. 1626Bacon Sylva §752 Some Creaturs have Over-long, or Out-growing Teeth, which we call Fangs, or Tuskes; as Boares. |