Improve

im-proov', v. t. [-proved (-proovd'), ING.] To make better; to increase the value or qualities of; to use to good purpose; to advance, mend, correct, rec cify.— v. i. To grow better; to make orshow improvement; to grow worse; to increase, be enhanced, rise. — Improve'ment. n. Act of improving, or state of being improved; progre toward what is better; act of making profitable use of anything, or state of being profitably employed; pracof a discourse; tical application, that as which of the improves doctrines and" anything, principles or is added to it by way of improving it.