Chapman.
3. That gain which proceeds from labor, business, property, or capital
of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds
of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or
the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts;
salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a
corporation, from property; as, a large income.
No fields afford So large an income to the village lord.
Dryden.
4. (Physiol.) That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta;
-- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the
food. See Food. Opposed to output.
Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company
issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings
of the company before any dividends are made to stockholders; -- issued
chiefly or exclusively by railroad companies. -- Income tax, a tax upon
a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc., or upon the excess
beyond a certain amount.
Syn. -- Gain; profit; proceeds; salary; revenue; receipts; interest;
emolument; produce.
In"com`er (?), n. 1. One who comes in.
Outgoers and incomers.
Lew Wallace.