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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.

Quick; expeditious. [Obs.] His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.

A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure. Husband nature's riches from expense. Shak.

knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert gentleman. Shak. What practice, howsoe'er expert In fitting aptest words to things . . . Hath power to give thee as thou wert Tennison.

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. [Obs.] The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn.

or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat. Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. Shak.

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

Outside of the branchial arches; -- said of the cartilages thus placed in some fishes.

Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting of lumber, etc. Cairnes.

, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

ting; construction. [R.] Tithe was received by the bishop, . . . for the fabricof the churches for the poor. Milman.

; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero. The fabulous birth of Minerva. Chesterfield.

h of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets. Harris.

s with the teeth; to lay hold of; to gripe; to clutch. [Obs.] Shak. He's in the law's clutches; you see he's fanged. J. Webster.

To a great distance in time from any point; remotely; as, he pushed his researches far into antiquity.

ht from far, or brought about with studious care; a deep strategem. [Obs.] "Politic farfetches." Hudibras.

cal bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.