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PROLONGING |
Drawing out |
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EXTENSION |
Drawing out |
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ELICITING |
Drawing out |
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LENGTHENING |
Drawing out |
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PROTENSION |
A drawing out; extension. |
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EXANTLATION |
Act of drawing out ; exhaustion. |
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EDUCTION |
The act of drawing out or bringing into view. |
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PROTRACTIVE |
Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging;
continuing; delaying. |
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CRANE |
A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. |
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DRAUGHT |
The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating;
representation. |
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FILATURE |
A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk
from cocoons. |
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START |
To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as,
to start a water cask. |
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EXHAUST |
To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to
exhaust a well, or a treasury. |
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DRAWER |
A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by
pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in. |
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PROTRACTION |
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the
termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the
protraction of a debate. |
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CROSS |
To cancel by marking crosses on or over, or drawing a
line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off, or over; as, to cross
out a name. |
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ANTIGUGGLER |
A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the
neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the
sediment or causing a gurgling noise. |
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HEMSTITCH |
To ornament at the head of a broad hem by drawing out
a few parallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive
small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief. |
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BOPEEP |
The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen,
so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out
and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened. |
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SPIN |
To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or
machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to
produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. |
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SCRATCH |
To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the
name of a candidate upon a ballot, or of a horse in a list; hence, to
erase; to efface; -- often with out. |
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BEND |
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by
straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing
into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee. |
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EXTRACTION |
The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the
extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump
from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. |
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GUT |
The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its
cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when
dry, is exce... |
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DESCRIBE |
To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to
delineate; to trace or mark out; as, to describe a circle by the
compasses; a torch waved about ... |