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To stretch; to make straight. [Written also straucht.] [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.

To draw out to the full length; to cause to extend in a straight line; as, to stretch a cord or rope.

Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

Set with stiff, straight bristles; hispid; as, a strigose leaf.

To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.

Having a form resembling that of a colter, or straight on one side and curved on the other.

ur-wheeled pleasure carriage, (commonly two-seated) somewhat like a phaeton, but having a straight bottom.

To go out of a straight line; to deflect. "The point [of the sword] swerved." Sir P. Sidney.

The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm. Line of syzygies (Astron.), the straight line connecting the earth, the sun, and the moon or a planet, when the latter is in conjunction or opposition; -- used chiefly of the moon.

A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. Artificial, or Logarithmi…

A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes, or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred, or closely united in the performance, or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.

oint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great endwise pressure, when any force is applied to bring them into this position.

The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.

A curve such that the part of the tangent between the point of tangency and a given straight line is constant; -- so called because it was conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

A straight line which traverses or intersects any system of other lines, as a line intersecting the three sides of a triangle or the sides produced.

America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. -- Tree fern (Bot.), an arborescent fern having a straight trunk, sometimes twenty or twenty-five feet high, or even higher, and bearing a cluster of fronds at the top. Most of the existing species are tropical. -- Tree fish (Zoöl.), a California market fish (Sebastichthys serri…

ture. See Plane curve, under Curve. -- Twisted surface (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line moving according to any law whatever, yet so that the consecutive positions of the line shall not be in one plane; a warped surface.

To free from flexure; to make, or allow to become, straight; to loosen; as, to unbend a bow.

To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.