† extancyn.
Obsolete.
The fact, quality, or state of standing out or being protuberant; also concrete a protuberance.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun]
projecture1563
jutting1565
project1596
juttying1611
prominence1611
excursiona1626
extancy1644
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saliency1834
salience1849
protrusion1853
prominency1871
pout1880–4
out-thrust1955
the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part
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protuberation1615
swelling1615
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tuber1888
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xxv. 227 When water falleth out of the skye, it hath all the litle corners or extancies of its body grated of by the ayre.
1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura v. 118 One may express to the eye..the Relievo, or extancie of objects.
1666 R. Boyle Origine Formes & Qualities 54 The little Exstancies by their Figure resisted a little the Motion of our Finger.
1689 J. Evelyn Let. 12 Aug. in Mem. (1889) III. 441 The filing, sharpnes, and due extancie [printed extanic], varnish, & other markes necessary to be critically skill'd in.
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