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Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..

Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

Bench :: Bench (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river..

Slave :: Slave (n.) An abject person; a wretch.

Half-faced :: Half-faced (a.) Showing only part of the face; wretched looking; meager.

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

Stretto :: Stretching () a. & n. from Stretch, v..

Monochord :: Monochord (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them..

Woful :: Woful (a.) Wretched; paltry; miserable; poor.

Taut :: Taut (a.) Tight; stretched; not slack; -- said esp. of a rope that is tightly strained.

Ribald :: Ribald (n./) A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow..

Retched :: Retched (imp. & p. p.) of Retc.

Keck :: Keck (v. i.) To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit..

Foreside :: Foreside (n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea..

Intense :: Intense (a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought..

Dreariness :: Dreariness (n.) Sorrow; wretchedness.

Groveler :: Groveler (n.) One who grovels; an abject wretch.

Pitiable :: Pitiable (a.) Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness..

Gallows :: Gallows (n. sing.) A wretch who deserves the gallows.

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

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