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Webster 1913 Edition

Accrue

Ac-crue′

(ăk-krṳ′)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accrued
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Accruing
.]
[See
Accrue
,
Noun.
,
and cf
.
Accresce
,
Accrete
.]
1.
To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did
accrue
.
Spenser.
2.
To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
“Interest accrues to principal.”
Abbott.
The great and essential advantages
accruing
to society from the freedom of the press.
Junius.

Ac-crue′

,
Noun.
[F.
accrû
, OF.
acreü
, p. p. of
accroitre
, OF.
acroistre
to increase; L.
ad
+
crescere
to increase. Cf.
Accretion
,
Crew
. See
Crescent
.]
Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Accrue

ACCRUE

,
Verb.
I.
accru'. [L. accresco, cresco.]
Literally, to grow to; hence to arise, proceed or come; to be added, as increase, profit or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver.

ACCRUE

,
Noun.
accru'. Something that accedes to, or follows the property of another. Obs.

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