?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 175 A drop alone, mortifieþ..alle wartes & excressenciez, i. outgrowingez [?c1425 Paris growynges oute; L. excrescentias].

a1450 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Caius 336/725) (1970) 24 (MED) Þe 4 chapitre..of out-growinge vndir þe nayl.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 60^v Yf you plucke away the tayles & the outgrowinges when you set them.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xi. 185 Thy nailes and the heares of thy head, which are but outgroings, and not parts of thy bodie.

1866 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 156 128 There is no such outgrowing of the base of the septum as is to be seen in the embryo Ox.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. x. 187 I have been placed in a position which hinders such outgrowings.

1987 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 5 Apr. c1 Perhaps..McMurtry has outgrown the traditional ‘wise’ novelist's voice that I was expecting. Maybe such outgrowings are an occupational hazard.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. xi. 99 Pruned and trimmed from the out-growing sprigges.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §752 Some Creaturs have Over-long, or Out-growing Teeth, which we call Fangs, or Tuskes; as Boares.

1860 J. Abbott Amer. Hist. I. iii. 85 The word exogenous means outgrowing. An exogenous plant is one that grows by successive layers deposited..beneath the bark.

1919 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 5 327 The outgrowing third, fourth and fifth spinal nerves in Amblystoma..become converged into a plexus as a result of concentration of the rudiment into the definitive limb bud.

1989 Looks Dec. (Calendar Suppl.) Make use of hair accessories to camouflage out-growing layers—try pins, slides and scrunchies.