multiply

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To increase the amount, number, or degree of.
2. v. Mathematics To perform multiplication on.
3. v. To grow in amount, number, or degree. See Synonyms at increase.
4. v. To breed or propagate.
5. v. Mathematics To perform multiplication.
6. adv. In many or multiple ways.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To make manifold; increase in number or quantity; make more by natural generation or reproduction, or by accumulation, addition, or repetition: as, to multiply men or horses; to multiply evils.
2. In arithmetic, to perform the operation of multiplication upon. See multiplication, 2.
3. To increase (the precious metals) by alchemical means. See multiplication, 3.
4. To grow or increase in number or extent; extend; spread.
5. In arithmetic, to perform the process of multiplication. See multiplication, 2.
6. To increase gold or silver by alchemical means.
7. In a manifold way.

Wiktionary

1. adv. In many or multiple ways.
2. v. transitive To increase the amount, degree or number of (something).
3. v. transitive, arithmetic To perform multiplication on (a number).
4. v. intransitive To grow in number.
5. v. intransitive To breed or propagate.
6. v. intransitive, arithmetic To perform multiplication.
7. v. transitive, rare To be a factor in a multiplication with (another factor).
8. n. computer science An act or instance of multiplying.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To increase in number; to make more numerous; to add quantity to.
2. v. (Math.) To add (any given number or quantity) to itself a certain number of times; to find the product of by multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.
3. v. obsolete To increase (the amount of gold or silver) by the arts of alchemy.
4. v. To become greater in number; to become numerous.
5. v. To increase in extent and influence; to spread.
6. v. obsolete To increase amount of gold or silver by the arts of alchemy.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. combine by multiplication
2. v. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)
3. v. have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
4. v. combine or increase by multiplication
5. adv. in several ways; in a multiple manner