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A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; -- opposed to decrease. The waters increased and bare up the ark. Gen. vii. 17. He must increase, but I must decrease. John iii. 30. The heavens forbid But that our loves and comforts should increase, Even as our days do grow! Shak.…

Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." [R.] Shak.

Increase. [R.] Bacon.

One who, or that, increases.

Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious.

A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.

To grant to another by lease the possession of, as of lands, tenements, and hereditaments; to let; to demise; as, a landowner leases a farm to a tenant; -- sometimes with out. There were some [houses] that were leased out for three lives. Addison.

Held by lease.

A tenant under a lease. -- Lease"hold`ing, a. & n.

One who leases or gleans. [Obs.] Swift.

An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison.[Eng.] Latimer.

A chronic nervous affection of cattle, horses, and sheep, caused by eating the loco weed and characterized by a slow, measured gait, high step, glassy eyes with defective vision, delirium, and gradual emaciation.

Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings. [Prov. Eng.]

Leprosy. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.

One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.

Want of ease; discomfort; misery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having discomfort or misery; troubled. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To please excessively.