Definition of Incme
In"come (?), n. 1.
A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.
[Obs.] Shak.
More abundant incomes of light and strength
from God. Bp. Rust.
At mine income I louted low.
Drant.
2. That which is caused to enter;
inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.
[R.]
I would then make in and steep
My income in their blood. 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
INCOME, n. The natural and rational gauge and measure of
respectability, the commonly accepted standards being artificial,
arbitrary and fallacious; for, as "Sir Sycophas Chrysolater" in the
play has justly remarked, "the true use and function of property (in
whatsoever it consisteth -- coins, or land, or houses, or merchant-
stuff, or anything which may be named as holden of right to one's own
subservience) as also of honors, titles, preferments and place, and
all favor and acquaintance of persons of quality or ableness, are but
to get money. Hence it followeth that all things are truly to be
rated as of worth in measure of their serviceableness to that end; and
their possessors should take rank in agreement thereto, neither the
lord of an unproducing manor, howsoever broad and ancient, nor he who
bears an unremunerate dignity, nor yet the pauper favorite of a king,
being esteemed of level excellency with him whose riches are of daily
accretion; and hardly should they whose wealth is barren claim and
rightly take more honor than the poor and unworthy."
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- the money you earn by working or capitalising off other peoples work
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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