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To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and the canal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.

See Ependyma.

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.

See Exigenter.

way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it…

A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers. Mozley & W.

The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement. our expenditure purchased commerce and conquest. Burke.

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.

Displaced. Ogilvie.

In an extended manner.

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

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Unlimited extension. [Obs.] An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.

The multiplicand. See Facient,

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

A fiend. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who or that which defends or protects by warding off harm; as:

Fiendlike. [Obs.] Chaucer.