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To increase; to augment. And though power failed, her courage did accrue. Spenser.

The act of accruing; accretion; as, title by accruer.

To accrue. [R.]

The process of accruing, or that which has accrued; increase. Jer. Taylor.

The profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.

against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

in till late." Arbuthnot. (f) To be added or inserted; to be or become a part of. (g) To accrue as gain from any business or investment. (h) To mature and yield a harvest; as, the crops come in well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow wi…

ilty, or the state of being found guilty of any crime by a legal tribunal. Conviction may accrue two ways. Blackstone.

To play tricks; to use sleights; to play false. What penalty and danger you accrue, If you be found to double. J. Webster.

Without allowance for accrued interest. [Broker's Cant]

ny way; to become larger and stronger; to be augmented; to advance; to extend; to wax; to accrue. Winter began to grow fast on. Knolles. Even just the sum that I do owe to you Is growing to me by Antipholus. Shak.

To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock.

gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. Bacon.

To bring into possession; to cause to accrue to, or to come into possession of; to acquire or provide for one's self or for another; to gain; to get; to obtain by any means, as by purchase or loan. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. Milton.