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Word Meanings - TIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley , a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

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  • PERCOLATE
    To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.
  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • SPREADINGLY
    , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • EXERT
    out; ex out + serere to join or bind together. See Series, and cf. 1. To thrust forth; to emit; to push out. So from the seas exerts his radiant head The star by whom the lights of heaven are led. Dryden. 2. To put force, ability, or anything of
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • TIGHTENER
    That which tightens; specifically , a tightening pulley.
  • STRAINING
    from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • REACH
    An effort to vomit.
  • FORCEPS
    The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
  • REACHABLE
    Being within reach.
  • EXTENDANT
    Displaced. Ogilvie.
  • LIXIVIATE
    To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances.
  • SPREAD-EAGLED
    1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
  • EXTEND
    To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent. Extended letter , a letter, or style of type, having a broader face than is usual for a letter or type of the same height. Note: This is extended
  • SPREAD-EAGLE
    Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
  • FORCEFUL
    Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
  • EXTENDIBLE
    Liable to be taken by a writ of extent. (more info) 1. Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded.
  • EXPANDER
    Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc.
  • OUTPREACH
    To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • FOREREACH
    To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • DISTRAINER
    See DISTRAINOR
  • HALF-STRAINED
    Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
  • INFILTRATE
    To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something. The water infiltrates through the porous rock. Addison.
  • BEDSPREAD
    A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
  • HIGH-REACHING
    Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
  • INFILTER
    To filter or sift in.
  • GUNREACH
    The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

 

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