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A wood or grove; -- a word used in the composition of many names, as in Hazlehurst.

economist. [R.] God knows how little time is left me, and may I be a good husband, to improve the short remnant left me. Fuller.

rder to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer. An hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hypothes…

rsion of logical order, in which the conclusion is put before the premises, or the thing proved before the evidence.

To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.

To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.

To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton.

Etym: [A word not fully approved, but sometimes used for the adverb ill.]

To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom in bliss imbosomed sat the Son. Milton.

An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.

n of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is proved, a mulicious intention is implied. Bp. Sherlock. When a man employs a laborer to work for him, . . . the act of hiring implies an obligation and a promise that he shall pay him a reasonable reward for his services. Blackston…

To disapprove of; to disallow. [Obs.]

The act by which falsehood and forgery are proved; an action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false or forged. Bell.

on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.

Capable of being improved; susceptible of improvement; admitting of being made better; capable of cultivation, or of being advanced in good qualities. Man is accommodated with moral principles, improvable by the exercise of his faculties. Sir M. Hale. I have a fine spread of improvable lands. Addison.…

Tending to improve, beneficial; growing better. -- Im*prov"ing*ly, adv. Improving lease (Scots Law), an extend lease to induce the tenant to make improvements on the premises.

ctions, and promotes quarrels or sedition; an agitator; an exciter. Several cities . . . drove them out as incendiaries. Bentley.

in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it. South.

ake use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship of them. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts. Locke.