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To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved. Shak.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]

ardin. Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

. I call that natural religion which men might know ... by the mere principles of reason, improved by consideration and experience, without the help of revelation. Bp. Wilkins.

nd to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs. Shak. This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Thos…

precise point or time. The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. L'Estrange.

The fruit of the olive. It has been much improved by cultivation, and is used for making pickles. Olive oil is pressed from its flesh.

A piece of paper pasted upon the tympan sheet to improve the impression by making it stronger at a particular place.

R.] That pedetentous pace and pedetentous mind in which it behooves the wise and virtuous improver to walk. Sydney Smith.

pilfer. "To keep my hands from picking and stealing." Book of Com. Prayer. To pick up, to improve by degrees; as, he is picking up in health or business. [Colloq. U.S.]

t, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

To exercise one's self in, for instruction or improvement, or to acquire discipline or dexterity; as, to practice gunnery; to practice music.

e throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident pretenders to certainty. Glanvill.

; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance. I profit not by thy talk. Shak.

To make improvement; to advance. Bayard. If man progresses, art must progress too. Caird.

ng with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; rapid improvement; rapid recurrence; rapid succession.

ity or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories. Dryden. But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines! Pope.