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Etcher :: Etcher (n.) One who etches.

Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To reduce; to throw.

Hilding :: Hilding (n.) A base, menial wretch..

Extendible :: Extendible (a.) Capable of being extended, susceptible of being stretched, extended, enlarged, widened, or expanded..

Mordant :: Mordant (n.) Any corroding substance used in etching.

Tambour :: Tambour (n.) A small frame, commonly circular, and somewhat resembling a tambourine, used for stretching, and firmly holding, a portion of cloth that is to be embroidered; also, the embroidery done upon such a frame; -- called also, in the latter sense, tambour work..

Temple :: Temple (n.) A contrivence used in a loom for keeping the web stretched transversely.

Cullion :: Cullion (n.) A mean wretch; a base fellow; a poltroon; a scullion.

Deplorable :: Deplorable (a.) Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable..

Ambulance :: Ambulance (n.) A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps..

Point :: Point (n.) An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer..

Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles..

Sprain :: Sprain (v. t.) To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle..

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion..

Wheel :: Wheel (v. i.) To go round in a circuit; to fetch a compass.

Poltroon :: Poltroon (n.) An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.

Sketchiness :: Sketchiness (n.) The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..

Pandiculated :: Pandiculated (a.) Extended; spread out; stretched.

Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A wretched or unfortunate man.

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