a coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion.-that which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted.-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.-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.