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Increase. [R.] Bacon.

ss of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. Coleridge.…

Pertaining to, or resulting from, the process of growth; as, the incremental lines in the dentine of teeth.

The act of inditing. Craig.

Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct. Blank indorsement. See under Blank.

ve or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil. "Mark the inducement." Shak.

The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment. W. Montagu.

Indulgence. [R.] Wood.

The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

Pure; undefiled. [Obs.]

The state of being unpolluted; purity. [Obs.] Donne.

Mutual transfer; exchange. [Obs.] Shak.

The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.

Introduction. [Obs.]

The act of twinning, or the state of being intwined.

Use; practice; discipline; habit; custom.

The act of inveigling, or the state of being inveigled; that which inveigles; enticement; seduction. South.

Invitation. [Obs.] Chapman.

The act of involving, or the state of being involved. Lew Wallace.

The state or quality of being unreconciled; disagreement.