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

Elongation :: Elongation (n.) That which lengthens out; continuation.

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

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.

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire..

Increase :: Increase (v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence..

Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..

Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..

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..

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

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..

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

Elongation :: Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension..

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length.

Imp :: Imp (n.) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, -- as, an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; a length of twisted hair in a fishing line..

Lengthened :: Lengthened (imp. & p. p.) of Lengthe.

Production :: Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging.

Crest :: Crest (n.) A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on an animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc..

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

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