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That expands, or may be expanded; extending; spreading; enlarging. Expanding bit, Expanding drill (Mech.), a bit or drill made adjustable for holes of various sizes; one which can be expanded in diameter while boring. -- Expanding pulley (Mach.), a pulley so made, as in sections, that its diameter can be increased or…

In an extraordinary manner or degree.

The quality of being extraordinary. [R.] Gov. of the Tongue.

Beyond or out of the common order or method; not usual, customary, regular, or ordinary; as, extraordinary evils; extraordinary remedies. Which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Milton.

An Irish dance; also, the burden of a song. "Fading is a fine jig." [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A frieze or rough-napped cloth. [Obs.]

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

A farthingale. [Obs.]

The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.

That which furnishes or affords food, especially for animals; pasture land. Feeding bottle. See under Bottle.

A measure of land mentioned in Domesday Book. It is supposed to have consisted of a few acres only. [Obs.]

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

The act of playing as a fielder.

a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.

The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess.

The act of making a fold or folds; also, a fold; a doubling; a plication. The lower foldings of the vest. Addison.

Courage without sense or judgment; foolish rashness; recklessness. Dryden.

abhorrence, aversion, or dislike; disagreeable; prohibiting or interdicting; as, a forbidding aspect; a forbidding formality; a forbidding air.