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3d pers. sing. pres. of Tread, for treadeth. Chaucer.

Tractable; moderate. [Obs.] By nature debonaire and tretable. Chaucer.

A tax; an impost. [Obs.] Johnson.

Long and well-proportioned; nicely made; pretty. [Obs.] "Her nose tretys." Chaucer.

and untoward accident; something inopportune or embarassing; a hitch. In this unhappy contretemps. De Quincey.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

communication between tionnasal aperture and the throat. See Hagfish. [Written also Hyperotreti.]

Obstinacy in opinious. [Written also opiniatry.] [Obs.]

To stretch out. Milton.

To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in conquest stretched mine arm. Shak.

One who, or that which, stretches.

from Stretch, v. Stretching course (Masonry), a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton.

In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time. [Written also stretta.]

A weasel. [Scot.]

uction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

e wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.