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Extension. [R.] Drayton.

Extended. [Obs.] Spenser.

o lessen the thickness. His body behind the head becomes broad, from whence it is again extenuated all the way to the tail. Grew.

The act of axtenuating or the state of being extenuated; the act of making thin, slender, or lean, or of palliating; diminishing, or lessening; palliation, as of a crime; mitigation, as of punishment. To listen . . . to every extenuation of what is evil. I. Taylor.

One who extenuates.

Tending to extenuate or palliate. Croker.

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

One who, or that which, fattens; that which gives fatness or fertility.

A fescennine.

The state of being finite.

To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail (Naut.), to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders are flattened for window glass.

Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.

Fleeted or skimmed milk. [Obs.] Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.

Skimmed. [Obs.]

Marked by, or as if by, the bite of flies. Shak.

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.