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Definition of expand

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Expand (v. t.) To cause the particles or parts of to spread themselves or stand apart, thus increasing bulk without addition of substance; to make to occupy more space; to dilate; to distend; to extend every way; to enlarge; -- opposed to contract; as, to expand the chest; heat expands all bodies; to expand the sphere of benevolence..

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Ferrule :: Ferrule (n.) A bushing for expanding the end of a flue to fasten it tightly in the tube plate, or for partly filling up its mouth..

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

Intumescent :: Intumescent (a.) Swelling up; expanding.

Evergreen :: Evergreen (a.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like..

Florescent :: Florescent (a.) Expanding into flowers; blossoming.

Unfurl :: Unfurl (v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag..

Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..

Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..

Open :: Open (v. i.) To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view..

Tournure :: Tournure (n.) Any device used by women to expand the skirt of a dress below the waist; a bustle.

Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. t.) To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, and the like; as, knowledge enlarges the mind..

Allerion :: Allerion (n.) Am eagle without beak or feet, with expanded wings..

Hysteranthous :: Hysteranthous (a.) Having the leaves expand after the flowers have opened.

Lithophyse :: Lithophyse (n.) A spherulitic cavity often with concentric chambers, observed in some volcanic rocks, as in rhyolitic lavas. It is supposed to be produced by expanding gas, whence the name..

Pileus :: Pileus (n.) The expanded upper portion of many of the fungi. See Mushroom.

Sea Trumpet :: Sea trumpet () A great blackish seaweed of the Southern Ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long..

Hoop :: Hoop (n.) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Explain :: Explain (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (a.) Expanding first at the summit, and later at the base, as a flower cluster..

Disclosed :: Disclosed (p. a.) Represented with wings expanded; -- applied to doves and other birds not of prey.