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STRETCH, L.

1. To draw out to greater length to extend in a line as, to stretch a cord or a rope.

2. To extend in breadth as, to stretch cloth.

3. To spread to expand as, to stretch the wings.

4. To reach to extend.

Stretch thine hand to the poor.

5. To spread to display as, to stretch forth the heavens.

6. To draw or pull out in length to strain as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.

7. To make tense to strain.

So the stretchd cord the shackled dancer tries.

8. To extend mentally as, to stretch the mind or thoughts.

9. To exaggerate to extend too far as, to stretch the truth to stretch ones credit.

STRETCH,

1. To be extended to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both. A wet hempen cord or cloth contracts in drying, it stretches.

2. To be extended to spread as, a lake stretches over a hundred miles of earth. Lake Erie stretches from Niagara nearly to Huron. Hence,

3. To stretch to, is to reach.

4. To be extended or to bear extension without breaking, as elastic substances.

The inner membrane--because it would stretch and yield, remained unbroken.

5. To sally beyond the truth to exaggerate. A man who is apt to stretch, has less credit than others.

6. In navigation, to sail to direct a course. It is often understood to signify to sail under a great spread of canvas close hauled. In this it differs from stand, which implies no press of sail. We were standing to the east, when we saw a ship stretching to the southward.

7. To make violent efforts in running.

STRETCH, n.

1. Extension in length or in breadth reach as a great stretch of wings.

2. Effort struggle strain.

Those put lawful authority upon the stretch to the abuse of power, under color of prerogative.

3. Force of body straining.

By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.

4. Utmost extent of meaning.

Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind.

5. Utmost reach of power.

This is the utmost stretch that nature can.

6. In sailing, a tack the reach or extent of progress on one tack.

7. Course direction as the stretch of seams of coal.