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To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

A straining, stretching, or bending; the state of being strained; as, the intension of a musical string.

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified. Sir M. Hale.

A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. Locke.

Entrail or inside. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

ntolerance shown toward a religious sect. These few restrictions, I hope, are no great stretches of intolerance, no very violent exertions of despotism. Burke.

A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened.

ations. [Also karoo.] The Great Karroo, or The Karroo, a vast plateau, in Cape Colony, stretching through five degrees of longitude, at an elevation of about 3,000 feet.

A light canoe, made of skins stretched over a frame, and usually capable of carrying but one person, who sits amidships and uses a double-bladed paddle. It is peculiar to the Eskimos and other Arctic tribes.

A kind of toy or rude musical instrument, as a tube inside of which is a stretched string made to vibrate by singing or humming into the tube.

To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit. [R.] Swift.

to frequent. Shak. 'Tis hallowed ground; Fairies, and fawns, and satyrs do it keep. J. Fletcher.

Covered, or bound round, with a kercher. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it.

ompact kidney-shaped masses. -- Kidney stone. (Min.) See Nephrite, and Jade. -- Kidney vetch (Bot.), a leguminous herb of Europe and Asia (Anthyllis vulneraria), with cloverlike heads of red or yellow flowers, once used as a remedy for renal disorders, and also to stop the flow of blood from wounds; lady's-fingers.…

hankful and to evil. Luke vi 35. O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind. Waller. A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind. Garrick.

A sword or dagger. The coward conquest of a wretch's knife. Shak. Knife grass (Bot.) a tropical American sedge (Scleria latifolia), having leaves with a very sharp and hard edge, like a knife. -- War to the knife, mortal combat; a conflict carried to the last extremity.

instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]