  Given a bounded Lipschitz domain $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^n$, Rychkov showed
that there is a linear extension operator $\mathcal E$ for $\Omega$ which is
bounded in Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. In this paper we introduce some
new estimates for the extension operator $\mathcal E$ and give some
applications. We prove the equivalent norms $\|f\|_{\mathscr
A_{pq}^s(\Omega)}\approx\sum_{|\alpha|\le m}\|\partial^\alpha f\|_{\mathscr
A_{pq}^{s-m}(\Omega)}$ for general Besov and Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. We also
derive some quantitative smoothing estimates of the extended function and all
its derivatives on $\overline\Omega^c$ up to the boundary.
