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A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate. Muley axle (Railroad), a car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals. Forney.

ent threadlike axis cylinder which is continuous the whole length of the fiber. -- Nerve stretching (Med.), the operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.

that line or plane, in a beam under transverse pressure, at which the fibers are neither stretched nor compressed, or where the longitudinal stress is zero. See Axis. -- Neutral equilibrium (Mech.), the kind of equilibrium of a body so placed that when moved slighty it neither tends to return to its former position n…

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

A sycophantic servant. [Obs.] Silly ducking observants, That stretch their duties nicely. Shak.

To stretch or strain too much; as to overstrain one's nerves. Ayliffe.

Extended; spread out; stretched.

A stretching and stiffening of the trunk and extremities, as when fatigued and drowsy.

A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.

ons of sounding bodies by optical means. It consists of a tube across the end of which is stretched a film of soap solution thin enough to give colored bands, the form and position of which are affected by sonorous vibrations.

Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.…

Extended horizontally; stretched out.

The act of stretching forth.

To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope.

A level stretch in a canal between locks.

To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

ayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes.

Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. Prolate cycloid. See the Note under Cycloid. -- Prolate ellipsoid or spheroid (Geom.), a figure generated by the revolution of an ellipse about its major axis. See Ellipsoid of rev…

Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. Groveling and prostrate on yon lake of fire. Milton.

To hold out; to stretch forth. [Obs.] With his protended lance he makes defence. Dryden .