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protrude, v.|prəʊˈtruːd|
[ad. L. prōtrūd-ĕre to thrust or push forward or forth, f. prō, pro-1 1 a + trūd-ĕre to thrust.]
†1. trans. To thrust forward (some detached body); to push or drive onward. Obs.
1620Venner Via Recta vii. 112 They protrude and driue downe the meates from the stomacke, before they be digested. a1704Locke (J.), When the stomach has performed its office upon the food, it protrudes it into the guts. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 284 The arrow is by a single blast of air from the lungs, protruded through the cavity of the reed. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 121 A series of spasmodic contractions..gradually increase in strength..and protrude the child into the world.
fig.1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 169 Nothing is more familiar than for several Factions..to protrude and drive on one and the same design.
†b. intr. To shoot out. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §328 If the spirits be not merely detained, but protrude a little, and that motion be confused and inordinate, there followeth putrefaction.
2. trans. To push or thrust into any position; to thrust forth or stick out (an organ or part) into a projecting position; to cause to project; to extend.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xx. 156 If beholding a candle we protrude either upward or downeward the pupill of one eye, the object will appeare double. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 36 Those black filaments or optick nerves, which are sheathed in her [the snail's] horns which she can retract or protrude. 1730–46Thomson Autumn 1311 When young Spring protrudes the bursting gems. 1828G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xv. 236 The linen jacket which he wore was protruded by a broken rib. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 131 From each tube a polyp is protruded, of a brilliant grass-green colour.
†b. transf. To bring to the surface, as a rash.
a1776R. James Diss. Fevers (1778) 17 Let the physician but remove the fever, and..no miliary eruptions will be protruded.
c. fig. To obtrude, put forth obtrusively.
1840Thackeray Pict. Rhapsody Wks. 1900 XIII. 321 Critics, who..protrude their nonsense upon the town. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. lviii. 255, I would protrude my opinion to the world.
3. intr. To stick out; to project or jut out beyond the surrounding parts.
a1626Bacon (Webster 1828–32), The parts protrude beyond the skin. 1771[see protruding below]. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 219 If the other hand should protrude, it may be encountered by a similar expedient. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxii. 155 The rocks which protrude from the snow at the base of the last spur of the mountain. 1868Farrar Seekers i. vi. (1875) 75 A common soldier had spied a pair of feet protruding from under the curtains.
Hence proˈtruded, proˈtruding ppl. adjs.
1771Luckombe Hist. Print. 241 The P is kerned, that its propensity may cover the back of the protruding angle of A. 1810Southey Kehama ii. xi, The protruded brow. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 7 The protruded filaments are able to coalesce. 1904W. M. Ramsay Lett. to Seven Ch. xxvii. 394 A coiled serpent with raised head and protruding tongue. |