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Capable of being extended or drawn out; ductile; tensible. Gold . . . is likewise the most flexible and tensible. Bacon.

Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall.

r showing the presistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

A cover, often of tatting, drawn work, or other ornamental work, for the back of a chair, the arms of a sofa, or the like.

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.

used for coasting down hills or prepared inclined planes; also, a sleigh or sledge, to be drawn by dogs, or by hand, over soft and deep snow. [Written also tobogan, and tarbogan.]

A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation.

a harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. -- Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great e…

d a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right. Pope.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

ding from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell." Milton.

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

as conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

To be drawn out in length; to follow after. When his brother saw the red blood trail. Spenser.

That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : --

ay laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.