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proˈtuberancy
[f. as protuberance + -ancy.]
1. Protuberant condition; bulging out; = protuberance 1.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. xxii. 276 When..a protuberancy of the lip should be the certeine signe of the true heir to the Crowne. 1692Ray Disc. i. iii. (1693) 34 The protuberancy of the dry Land above the common Superficies of the Ocean. 1718J. Chamberlayne Relig. Philos. (1730) II. xx. §23 The Earth..is not perfectly globular, but has a greater Protuberancy under the Equator. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 185 The other [cause of squinting arises] from an oblique position and greater protuberancy of the cornea.
†2. A rounded projection; = protuberance 2 a. Obs.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. x. (1712) 72 Why has he four Knees,..as also a Protuberancy under his Breast to lean on? 1760Milles in Phil. Trans. LI. 537 Small protuberancies sometimes appear, like the knots of trees. |