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Combat; war. [Obs.] He made haste to exploit some warlike service. Holland.

To hold out or reach forth, as the arm or hand. His helpless hand extend. Dryden.

le; extendible; -- the opposite of contractible or compressible. "An extensible membrane" Holder.

One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.

A supporter of extreme doctrines or practice; one who holds extreme opinions.

Tending to cause ulcers; exulceratory. Holland.

The hole through the head of a needle.

A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

A monotonous refrain. [Obs.] Holland.

efeat, as in controversy. [Collog.] I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.

at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner. Holder.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

One of afanatical Antinomian sect originating in Holland, and existing in England about 1580, called the Family of Love, who held that religion consists wholly in love.

Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief. Among these fancy next Her office holds. Milton.

To catch; to seize, as 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.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry. Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. Milton.

To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts. The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties…

arcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.