In·crease n.
 1. Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
 As if increase of appetite had grown
 By what it fed on.   --Shak.
 For things of tender kind for pleasure made
 Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd.   --Dryden.
 2. That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
    Take thou no usury of him, or increase.   --Lev. xxv. 36.
    Let them not live to taste this land's increase.   --Shak.
 3. Progeny; issue; offspring.
    All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age.   --1 Sam. ii. 33.
 4. Generation. [Obs.] “Organs of increase.”
 5. Astron. The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon.
    Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon.   --Bacon.
 Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the angle of twist increases from the breech to the muzzle.
 Syn: -- Enlargement; extension; growth; development; increment; addition; accession; production.
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