1. Melioration; a making or growing better, or more valuable; as the improvement of barren or exhausted land; the improvement of the roads; the improvement of the breed of horses or cattle.
2. A valuable addition; excellence added, or a change for the better; sometimes with on.
The parts of Sinon, Camilla, and some few others, are improvements on the Greek poet.
3. Advance or progress from any state to a better.
There is a design of publishing the history of architecture, with its several improvements and decays.
4. Instruction; growth in knowledge or refinement; edification.
I look upon your city as the best place of improvement.
5. Use or employment to beneficial purposes; a turning to good account; as the improvement of natural advantages or spiritual privileges.
A good improvement of his reason.
6. Practical application; as the improvement of the doctrines and principles of a sermon.
I shall make some improvement of this doctrine.
Hence,
7. The part of a discourse intended to enforce and apply the doctrines, is called the improvement.
8. Use; occupancy.
9. Improvements, plu.,valuable additions or melioration, as building, clearings, drains, fences, _c., on a farm.
