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1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. xiii. 640 Whose failing limmes with strength renew'd regrow, When they once touch his mother Earth below [L. cui cum tetigere parentem, iam defecta vigent renovato robore membra].

1745 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd II. July vii. 48 The Hand-hoe does it so superficially, that little more than the Heads of the Weeds will be broken off; and serves to make many of them to regrow with the greatest Vigour.

1818 F. Peck Bard of West I. vii. 230 He could not decently be seen abroad until his hair had regrown.

1855 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 25 137 The human head once struck off does not regrow like the rose.

1919 T. Dreiser Twelve Men i. 2 He was short, stocky,..with a bushy, tramp-like ‘get-up’ of hair and beard, most swiftly and astonishingly disposed of at times only to be regrown at others.

1944 Ecol. Monogr. 14 278/1 The lizard regrew a black tip on the tail where the injured tissue had sloughed off.

2008 Independent 1 Jan. 30/5 Attempts are being made to deliver carbon neutrality over a period. This can be achieved only if we don't burn as fast as we regrow.