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A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.

To stretch out. Milton.

To engrave, or make an engraving of, by any photomechanical process involving etching of the plate.

A photo-engraving produced by any process involving the etching of the plate.

en also reach.] Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.

Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden. --- Retch"less*ly, adv. -- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]

To make sketches, as of landscapes.

A book of sketches or for sketches.

One who sketches.

In a sketchy or incomplete manner. "Sketchily descriptive." Bartlett.

The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Containing only an outline or rough form; being in the manner of a sketch; incomplete. The execution is sketchy throughout; the head, in particular, is left in the rough. J. S. Harford.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in conquest stretched mine arm. Shak.

One who, or that which, stretches.

from Stretch, v. Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.

See Techiness.

See Techy. Shak.

Any leguminous plant of the genus Vicia, some species of which are valuable for fodder. The common species is V. sativa.