Multiply
- v. i. To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.
- v. t. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
- v. t. To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication; thus 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56; to multiply two numbers. See the Note under Multiplication.
- v. t. To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
- v. i. To become greater in number; to become numerous.
- v. i. To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.