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Encouragement :: Encouragement (n.) That which serves to incite, support, promote, or advance, as favor, countenance, reward, etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people..

Fluxion :: Fluxion (n.) The infinitely small increase or decrease of a variable or flowing quantity in a certain infinitely small and constant period of time; the rate of variation of a fluent; an incerement; a differential.

Fructuary :: Fructuary (n.) One who enjoys the profits, income, or increase of anything..

Excitement :: Excitement (n.) 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..

Barrage :: Barrage (n.) An artificial bar or obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile..

Contributory :: Contributory (a.) Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive..

Intensive :: Intensive (a.) Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified..

Engross :: Engross (v. t.) To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To increase in amount; to enlarge; as, his expenses rose beyond his expectations..

Glaucoma :: Glaucoma (n.) Dimness or abolition of sight, with a diminution of transparency, a bluish or greenish tinge of the refracting media of the eye, and a hard inelastic condition of the eyeball, with marked increase of tension within the eyeball..

More :: More (superl.) Greater; superior; increase.

Masticatory :: Masticatory (n.) A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.

Sevenfold :: Sevenfold (a.) Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount.

Block :: Block (v. t.) A grooved pulley or sheave incased in a frame or shell which is provided with a hook, eye, or strap, by which it may be attached to an object. It is used to change the direction of motion, as in raising a heavy object that can not be conveniently reached, and also, when two or more such sheaves are compounded, to change the rate of motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles..

Runner :: Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Heighten :: Heighten (v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint..

Centuple :: Centuple (v. t.) To increase a hundredfold.

Hyperaesthesia :: Hyperaesthesia (n.) A state of exalted or morbidly increased sensibility of the body, or of a part of it..

Innerve :: Innerve (v. t.) To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate..

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