concrew

English

Etymology

See concrete (adjective) and accrue.

Verb

concrew (third-person singular simple present concrews, present participle concrewing, simple past and past participle concrewed)

1. (obsolete, nonce word) To grow together.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40:

     And his faire lockes […] He let to grow and griesly to concrew.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “concrew”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)