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To consume or reduce to ashes by burning, as a dead body; to cremate.

Burning; esp., the act of burning a dead body; cremation.

The act or process 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 its…

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

To chide; to rebuke; to reprove. [Obs.]

A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.

Increasing; growing; augmenting; swelling; enlarging. Between the incresent and decrescent moon. Tennyson.

To adorn with a crest. [R.] Drummond.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.

The act of incriminating; crimination.

Of or pertaining to crimination; tending to incriminate; criminatory.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.

To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar. And by the frost refin'd the whiter snow, Incrusted hard. Thomson.

Incrusted. Bacon.

The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted.

Incrustation. [R.]

Not crystallizable; incapable of being formed into crystals.

To sit, as on eggs for hatching; to brood; to brood upon, or keep warm, as eggs, for the purpose of hatching.

The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)