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Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.

To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer.

ion (Math.), a function whose values recur at fixed intervals as the variable uniformly increases. The trigonomertic functions, as sin x, tan x, etc., are periodic functions. Exponential functions are also periodic, having an imaginary period, and the elliptic functions have not only a real but an imaginary period, and…

earth, etc., by a root; hence, in general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The bended twigs take root." Milton.

To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet. Smart.

to lose vital force, as the body or mind. -- To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott. -- To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams…

A rope through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. Totten.

Induration; hardening; especially, that form of induration produced in an organ by increase of its interstitial connective tissue.

own or held out; as, a scramble for office. Scarcity [of money] enhances its price, and increases the scramble. Locke.

A morbidly increased discharge of sebaceous matter upon the skin; stearrhea.

a visor. The service hat is of soft felt of khaki color, with broad brim and high crown, creased down the middle.

Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton.

To render more shrill or piercing. Inclosures not only preserve sound, but increase and sharpen it. Bacon.

, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]

Decrease in value; depreciation. [Colloq.]

und, from weakness or from an overburden; to fail in strength; to decline; to decay; to decrease. I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. Shak. He sunk down in his chariot. 2 Kings ix. 24. Let not the fire sink or slacken. Mortimer.

To swell; to increase the bulk of. Beau. & Fl.

he tide. -- Slack-water navigation, navigation in a stream the depth of which has been increased, and the current diminished, by a dam or dams.

To become slack; to be made less tense, firm, or rigid; to decrease in tension; as, a wet cord slackens in dry weather.