elongate

When the muscles of the heart cease to act, the refluent blood again distends or elongates them; and thus irritated they contract as before.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him. But before he can expect to bring any reasonable person over to his opinion, he ought to shew, that the necks of mankind have been gradually elongating …

… let the common house of easement [i.e. the outhouse] be ouer some water, or els elongated from the house.

… about Capo Frio in Brasilia, the south point varieth twelve degrees unto the West, and about the mouth of the Straites of Magellan five or six; but elongating from the coast of Brasilia toward the shore of Africa it varyeth Eastward,