Income

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.

II. Income ·noun That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.

III. Income ·noun 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.

IV. Income ·noun 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.