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hora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges.

were glad to compound for his bare commitment to the Tower, whence he was within few days enlarged. Clarendon.

A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] And toward the moon's attractive crescence bend. H. Brooke.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ.

To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.

Expanded; enlarged. Shak.

One who, or that which, dilates, expands, o r enlarges.

Causing dilation; tending to dilate, on enlarge; expansive. Coleridge.

A part of the receptacle enlarged or expanded under, or around, or even on top of, the pistil.

To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. The warmth distends the chinks. Dryden.

To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.

To enlarge in the way of bulk. [R.] Latham.

To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to overstate the truth concerning. A friend exaggerates a man's virtues. Addison.

Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

f substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to Ant: contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence.