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Growing warmth; increasing heat.

A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. S…

In the manner of a convalescent; with increasing strength or vigor.

With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score.

The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.

Increasing; growing. [R.] Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. Shak.

With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

Becoming less by gradual diminution; decreasing; as, a decrescent moon.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

Containing twelve; twelvefold; increasing by twelves; duodecimal.

Increasing by internal growth and elongation at the summit, instead of externally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion.

Increasing by equal increments; as, an equicrescent variable.

Causing or increasing secretion of nasal mucus.

The refinement or subtilization of a body, or the increasing of its virtue or principal property.

ed by having c wood bark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, and increasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to the outside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, and the number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl. Cf. Endogen. Gray.…

To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevol…

of a limb or joint; that motion of a joint which gives the distal member a continually decreasing angle with the axis of the proximal part; -- distinguished from extension.

A variable quantity, considered as increasing or diminishing; - - called, in the modern calculus, the function or integral.