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Shining. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

ther gases and vapors. -- Elastic limit (Mech.), the limit of distortion, by bending, stretching, etc., that a body can undergo and yet return to its original form when relieved from stress; also, the unit force or stress required to produce this distortion. Within the elastic limit the distortion is directly proporti…

ple room for motion or action; free scope. "My soul hath elbowroom." Shak. Then came a stretch of grass and a little more elbowroom. W. G. Norris.

Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elemental of a plan.

Sorrowful; wretched; full of trouble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To lengthen; to extend; to stretch; as, to elongate a line.

To make brilliant with beams. [R.] G. Fletcher.

To make pale. [Obs.] No bloodless malady empales their face. G. Fletcher.

encircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle. Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.

If I make a lie To gain your love and envy my best mistress, Put me against a wall. J. Fletcher.

State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.

The bitter vetch (Ervum Ervilia).

The first sketch of a picture or model of a statue.

Destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened. [R.] "Pale . . . wretch, exanimate by love." Thomson.

eral use, not implying worthiness. [Obs.] When the whole heart is excellently sorry. J. Fletcher.

Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch. "Execrable pride." Hooker. -- Ex"e*cra*ble*ness, n. -- Ex"e*cra*bly, adv.

Anything which causes expansion esp. (Mech.) a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.

r, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke.

One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.