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To make larger.

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To grow larger.

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To increase the capacity of; to expand; to give free scope or greater scope to; also, to dilate, as with joy, affection, etc.

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Knowledge enlarges the mind.

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To speak or write at length upon or on (some subject); expand; elaborate

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To release; to set at large.

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To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; said of the wind.

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To extend the time allowed for compliance with (an order or rule).

As time advanced there was a growing tendency to enlarge the royal seal.

At last the world undertakes to enlarge the circle of its ideas.

Cut a few trails, clear around the pool of water - maybe enlarge it and get some ducks.

Instead of conforming to abstract principles of public law and hereditary succession, they strove to enlarge their territories at the expense of their rivals, and to leave them at their death to their sons rather than to their brothers, nephews and more distant relations.

In the course of a long period characterized by a weak central government, it was not difficult to enlarge the rights which the lord thus obtained, to exclude even the king's personal authority from the immunity, and to translate the duties and payments which the tenant had once owed to the state into obligations which he owed to his lord, even finally into incidents of his tenure.

After a disastrous attempt to enlarge the tunnel in 1675, it was eventually converted into an open cutting, but the work was not finished till 1789, and the bottom was then 29 ft.

He then endeavoured to enlarge his estates at the expense of Childebert's sons, Theodebert, king of Austrasia, and Theuderich II., king of Burgundy; but after gaining a victory at Laffaux (597), he was defeated at Dormelles (600), and lost part of his kingdom.

A board of estimate, composed of the mayor, the city solicitor, the comptroller, the president of the second branch of the city council, and the president of the board of public improvements, has control over appropriations, the council having power to decrease the amount of any item but not to enlarge it.

So little was the collection considered as a literary work with a definite text that every one assumed a right to abridge or enlarge, to insert ideas of his own, or fresh scriptural quotations; nor were the scribes and translators by any means scrupulous about the names of natural objects, and even the passages from Holy Writ.

But of this we may be sure, that science, in obeying the law of humanity, will always labour to enlarge the frontiers of life."

In addition to the appliances mentioned the tools comprise reamers to enlarge the bore of the well, the winged-substitute which is fitted above the bit to prevent it from glancing off, and above the round reamer to keep it in place, a temper-screw with clamps and wrenches.

This telson may enlarge, it may possibly even become internally and sternally developed as partially separate somites, and the tergum may remain without trace of somite formation, or, as appears to be the case in Limulus, the telson gives rise to a few well-marked somites (mesosoma and two others) and then enlarges without further trace of segmentation, whilst the chitinous integument which develops in increasing thickness on the terga as growth advances welds together the unsegmented telson and the somites in front of it, which were previ ously marked by separate tergal thickenings.

The outcome has been to raise the dignity of the calling, to induce persons of a superior class to adopt it in increasing numbers, to enlarge the demand for their services, and to multiply the means of educating them.

Commencing in and around the solitary glands of the large intestine in the form of exudations, these ulcers, small at first, enlarge and run into each other, till a large portion of the bowel may be implicated in the ulcerative process.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The subject is too abstruse to enlarge further upon here.

While not confining myself to any special system of instruction, I have tried to add to her general information and intelligence, to enlarge her acquaintance with things around her, and to bring her into easy and natural relations with people.

To enlarge the scale of operations makes strongly for economy in the open-hearth process as in other high temperature ones.

His marriage brought him an increase of about $100,000 in his property, making him one of the richest men in the colonies; and he was able to develop his plantation and enlarge its extent.

Diagram of the patch clamp technique - click on the thumbnail to enlarge.

The drill brace appears to have been used by Assyrians in the 7th century B.C. Piercers of bronze tapering (58), to enlarge holes in leather, &c., were common in all ages.

All this tended to enlarge the political views of the burgesses, and was not without its influence on the future.

The multiplication of pilgrims after Islam soon made it necessary to clear away the nearest dwellings and enlarge the place of prayer around the Ancient House.

Accordingly, when he was nearly forty years of age he went through a varied course of study and experiment, in order to enlarge and clarify his view of things.

In autumn last I spent two months in calculations to no purpose for want of a good method, which made me afterwards return to the first book, and enlarge it with divers propositions, some relating to comets, others to other things, found out last winter.

Yet in both cases it might easily pass beyond that compass, and might rest itself upon an appeal to the duty of governments to modify the law, and to enlarge the basis of their authority, when law and authority have become too narrow.

In 1897 the whole tendency of thought and opinion was to enlarge the burden of which the preceding generation had been weary.

The military occupation by the Turks left little permanent impression; colonization was never attempted; and the continuous wars by which the victors strove to secure or enlarge their dominions north of the Save left no time for the introduction of Moslem religion or civilization among the vanquished.

Similarly, in the universal movement of those forces which made for freedom, France began the age-long struggle to maintain the rights of civil society and continually to enlarge the social categories.

She had to buy new bras as her breasts began to enlarge, and headaches were a daily thing now.

Diagram to illustrate parathyroid anatomy (posterior view) - click to enlarge There is variation in the number and location of glands.

The only way to enlarge the gene pool is to bring in new bloodlines from the wild.

Click to enlarge Queen white-tailed bumblebee close-up Close-up view of a queen white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) in search of a nest site.

Click image above to enlarge Or click image above to enlarge Or Click here to see even more of Simply Daisys.

Click to enlarge Male azure damselfly The male azure damselfly (Coenagrion puella) looks superficially similar to a number of other blue damselflies.

Click to enlarge Synergistic gangrene is a polymicrobial infection.

Click to enlarge Male house sparrow on nest box This image brings back strong memories for me.

Figure 6. Stockpiling area of variegated jasper in clay pits or ' bins ' Click to enlarge.

Click to enlarge Click to enlarge The analogy of the ocean liner was too strong to resist.

Enlarge Image In the early months of the war the expected air attacks did not materialize.

Click on picture to enlarge l Edison commissions 600 tin-foil phonographs from several workshops to circulate for demonstration purposes.

They also have throat pleats, which can expand to allow their throat to enlarge into a huge pouch.

Tom Sewell asks Britain's tallest man to draw the raffle Click on image to enlarge.

The prince commissioned the architect Henry Holland to enlarge his house into a classical building with a domed rotunda.

Hitting the ' square ' icon will enlarge the window to fill the whole screen.

Click to enlarge male house sparrow on nest box This image brings back strong memories for me.

Picture by Mrs. P. Click to enlarge the thumbnail.

Click to enlarge The attraction also has a large trampoline free for anyone to use.

On the 2nd of May 1422 Henry V., in right of the duchy of Lancaster, " hearing that Chicheley inflamed by the pious fervour of devotion intended to enlarge divine service and other works of piety at Higham Ferrers, in consideration of his fruitful services, often crossing the seas, yielding to no toils, dangers or expenses.

The Field-Marshal received him most courteously and offered not only to waive the demand for a part of Piedmontese territory, but to enlarge the kingdom, on condition that the constitution should be abolished and the blue Piedmontese flag substituted for the tricolor.