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To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch. [R.] But say, what mean those colored streaks in heaven Distended as the brow of God appeased Milton.

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

To attend to; to apply one's self to. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make tender. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street. Few extend their thoughts toward universal knowledge'. Locke.

Displaced. Ogilvie.

In an extended manner.

One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything.

Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.

Unlimited extension. [Obs.] An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.

Not extended.

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.