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Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.

Increase of violence or malignity; aggravation; exacerbation. "Exasperation of the fits." Sir H. Wotton.

An agent or influence which arouses vital activity, or produces increased action, in a living organism or in any of its tissues or parts; a stimulant.

To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts.

The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement of the people.

-- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or diminished.

Enlargement or extension of business transaction; esp., increase of the circulation of bank notes.

The quality or state of being suitable for exportation. To increase the exportability of native goods. J. P. Peters.

To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions; as, to extend liquors. G. P. Burnham.

of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.

Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.

keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's lateral resistance. -- False key, a picklock. -- False leg. (Zoöl.) See Proleg. -- False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an animal membrane.…

pport; promotion; befriending. But found no favor in his lady's eyes. Dryden. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man. Luke ii. 52.

A branch railroad, stage line, or the like; a side line which increases the business of the main line.

An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.…

A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom, are denominated fevers; as, typhoid fever; yellow fever.

Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish.

The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne.