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To stretch' to extend; to distend. [Obs.] By this the lungs are intended or remitted. Sir M. Hale.

The office or employment of an intendant.

One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Intentionally. [R.] Milton.

See Intendant, n. [Obs.]

One who intends. Feltham.

Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. [Obs.] Spenser.

Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.

To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening. [R.] Bacon.

Incapable of holding or containing. [Obs.] This captious and intenible sieve. Shak.

To intensify. [R.] Emerson.

The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.

Adding intensity; intensifying.

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

Intently. [Obs.] J. Spencer.

The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.