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Definition of Elongating
1. elongate [v] - See also: elongate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elongating
Literary usage of Elongating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biennial Retrospect of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences, for by New Sydenham Society (1873)
"... they have been long acting, gradually elongating the attachments, and stretching
and elongating the organs themselves, or parts of them. ..."
2. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"... afterwards elongating ; bracts ovate, acute, ^ аз lung as the calyx, which
is § as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla filac, limb £ in. diam. ..."
3. Comprehensive Physical Culture by Mabel Jenness (1891)
"elongating EXERCISES. 7 N this chapter a series of elongating exercises are given,
so called because they tend to lift the body and elongate every part. ..."
4. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter (1832)
"elongating.—Pontil.—Fashioning.—Detaching.—Removal to Annealing
Oven.—Moulding.—Annealing.—Why indispensable.—Bologna Phials.— Rupert's Drops. ..."
5. An Epitome of Braithwaite's Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery by William Braithwaite, Walter S. Wells (1860)
"By enlarging or diminishing, by elongating or shortening, the head, or varying
its form, the drops may be carried ..."
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