: in the United States of America. 511 
expression is now getting into use in this country. This verb, and the 
noun Growers (which, according to the English writers, is “aterm /ro- 
vincially applied to farmers,’*) seem to be a part of the éechnical language 
of the agriculturists. Dr. Johnson calls grow a verb neuter, and his twen- 
ty-first signification of 70 raise is, “ to procure to be bred or propagated ;”” 
one of his examples is this, “ he raised wheat where none grew before.” 
Ash, whose dictionary is the only one in which I find to grow asa verb active, 
Says, it “is a colloquial word ;” but, at the present day, it is certainly used. 
by the agricultural writers of England. 
In some of the Southern States they also use the verb fo raise in 
this manner: I aas raised, i.e. drought uf, in such atown. The word 
is never thus used, I think, in the Vorthern States. 
This verb is also much used in our legislative assemblies in the following 
manner: A member moves, that a committee should be raised to take any 
particular subject into consideration ; and a committee is accordingly rais- 
ed. The English say, in parliamentary language, a committee was formed 
or appointed: “ Earl Liverpool moved that a committee of twenty one 
Peers be appointed by ballot to examine the Physicians on the state of His 
ce s pealth,, ad Beco, aba tee in Saha Sette Jan. 9, 1812; and “ The 
RAPIDS C fa river ; comateniy need bs in sae hierar: .)é Sa sae of a a rar Gebere 
the water is rapid over a moderate descent.” Webst. The following des- 
cription of the rapids of the river Ohio will further explain the term: 
“ They are occasioned by a ledge of rocks that stretch across the bed of 
the river, from one side to the other, in some places projecting so much 
that they are visible when the water is not high, and in most places when the 
water is extremely low. The fall is not more than between four and five 
feet in the distance of a mile,” &c. Imlay’s Topograph. Desert: of the 
Western Territory of the U. States, p. 51, 2d edit. 
RAW SALAD. Dr. Witherspoon makes the following remarks on the eet 
sion: ” Raw salad is used in the South for salad. N.B. There is no sal- 
ad boiled.” Druid, Vo.7. 1 donot know whether this expression is used | 
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