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.