Answer:
What has roots as nobody sees, is taller than trees. Up, up it goes, and yet never grows?
What word in the English language does the following: the first two letters signify a male, the first three letters signify a female, the first four letters signify a great, while the entire world signifies a great woman. What is the word?
My first is an insect; my second is a border; my whole puts the face in a tuneful disorder.
Used left or right, I get to travel over cobblestone or gravel. Used up, I vie for sweet success, used down, I cause men great duress.
Often held but never touched. Always wet but never rusts. Often bits but seldom bit. To use it well you must have wit.
I flow from the Homer’s mouth when he sees doughnuts.