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Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

Drawl :: Drawl (v. t.) To utter in a slow, lengthened tone..

Addition :: Addition (n.) A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half.

Guna :: Guna (n.) In Sanskrit grammar, a lengthening of the simple vowels a, i, e, by prefixing an a element. The term is sometimes used to denote the same vowel change in other languages..

Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Ruff :: Ruff (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird..

Enlengthen :: Enlengthen (v. t.) To lengthen.

Lengthen :: Lengthen (v. i.) To become longer.

Lengthen :: Lengthen (v. t.) To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out..

Ectasis :: Ectasis (n.) The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.

Paragogical :: Paragogical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or constituting, a paragoge; added to the end of, or serving to lengthen, a word..

Coronated :: Coronated (a.) Having the coronal feathers lengthened or otherwise distinguished; -- said of birds.

Servile :: Servile (a.) Not itself sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceeding vowel, as e in tune..

Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..

Elong :: Elong (v. t.) To lengthen out; to prolong.

Prolong :: Prolong (a.) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue; as, to prolong one's days..

Augment :: Augment (n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs..

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

Great :: Great (superl.) Long continued; lengthened in duration; prolonged in time; as, a great while; a great interval..

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