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in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.

Produced increased vital action in the organism, or in any of its parts.

That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its…

To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.

A light sail set at the side of a principal or square sail of a vessel in free winds, to increase her speed. Its head is bent to a small spar which is called the studding-sail boom. See Illust. of Sail. Toten.

arsenic, benzoic acid, etc., which do not exhibit a liquid form on heating, except under increased pressure.

The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.

Increase; addition; surplus. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

To increase in size or extent by any addition; to increase in volume or force; as, a river swells, and overflows its banks; sounds swell or diminish.

Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams.

A remedy which has an action similar to that of another remedy, and hence increases the efficiency of that remedy when combined with it.

a moving body in the direction of a tangent to the path of the body, its effect being to increase or diminish the velocity; -- distinguished from a normal force, which acts at right angles to the tangent and changes the direction of the motion without changing the velocity. -- Tangential stress. (Engin.) See Shear, n…

Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids. And yet for thee ne wept she never a tear. Chaucer.

ic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished; -- called also prism telescope. Sir D. Brewster.

blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy. The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment. Fuller.

A work constructed on each side of the ravelins, to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the bastions.

's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson.

The tenth part of annual produce, income, increase, or the like; a tithe. Shak.

Templars and Hospitalers, and composed chiefly of Teutons, or Germans. The order rapidly increased in numbers and strength till it became master of all Prussia, Livonia, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.

Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." Chaucer. I have a mind presages me such thrift. Shak.