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To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.

e quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift.

To widen. [Obs.]

An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven. The pretty boots trimly stretched on boottrees. Thackeray.

rms, as of the cabriole and chairbacks, often resemble Queen Anne. In chairs, the seat is widened at the front, and the back toward the top widened and bent backward, except in Chinese Chippendale, in which the backs are usually rectangular. -- Chip"pen*dal*ism (#), n.

ammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. Coleridge.

ety; a coterie; a set. As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened. Macaulay.

In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.

A kind of coccolith, which in shape resembles a minute cup widened at the top, and varies in size from

A place for exit; an outlet; hence, a market for goods. The débouchés were ordered widened to afford easy egress. The Century.

Widening into a lamina or into lateral winglike appendages.

One who, or that which, widens or expands.

To enlarge; to widen; to carry out further; as, to extend the capacities, the sphere of usefulness, or commerce; to extend power or influence; to continue, as time; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to extend the time of payment or a season of trail.

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

The state of being extensive; wideness; largeness; extent; diffusiveness.

Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.

orge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag. Mouths gagged to such a wideness. Fortescue (Transl. ).

A piece of canvas cut obliquely to widen a sail at the foot.

The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.