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Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..

Monogram :: Monogram (n.) A picture in lines; a sketch.

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) A piece of timber used in building.

Designment :: Designment (n.) Delineation; sketch; design; ideal; invention.

Sketchiness :: Sketchiness (n.) The quality or state of being sketchy; lack of finish; incompleteness.

Trend :: Trend (v. i.) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest..

Wretchedly :: Wretchedly (adv.) In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like..

Delineation :: Delineation (n.) A delineated picture; representation; sketch; description in words.

Tympanize :: Tympanize (v. t.) To stretch, as a skin over the head of a drum; to make into a drum or drumhead, or cause to act or sound like a drum..

Intend :: Intend (v. t.) To stretch' to extend; to distend.

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

Boottree :: Boottree (n.) An instrument to stretch and widen the leg of a boot, consisting of two pieces, together shaped like a leg, between which, when put into the boot, a wedge is driven..

Sonometer :: Sonometer (n.) An instrument for exhibiting the transverse vibrations of cords, and ascertaining the relations between musical notes. It consists of a cord stretched by weight along a box, and divided into different lengths at pleasure by a bridge, the place of which is determined by a scale on the face of the box..

Wretch :: Wretch (v. t.) A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.

Litter :: Litter (n.) A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it..

Slubberdegullion :: Slubberdegullion (n.) A mean, dirty wretch..

Procrusteanize :: Procrusteanize (v. t.) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

Unsely :: Unsely (a.) Not blessed or happy; wretched; unfortunate.

Straught :: Straught () imp. & p. p. of Stretch.

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