To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.
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To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.
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A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.
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To show or illustrate by example.
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
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To make clear, bright, or luminous.
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The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…
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To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail.
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Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
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To mention specially; to particularize.
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To mention or name, as a particular thing; to designate in words so as to distinguish from other things; as, to specify the uses of a plant; to speci…
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To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter; to defecate; to fine; -- said of liquids, as wine or sirup.
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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.
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To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said…
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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…
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One that enlarges.
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One that enlarges.
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The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
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The act of expanding or spreading out; the condition of being expanded; dilation; enlargement.
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Act of expatiating.
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Act of expatiating.
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To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by inc…
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Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance;…
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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.
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To range at large, or without restraint.
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To lay open; to expose to view; to examine.
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To study by candlelight or a lamp; to study by night.
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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…
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