Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRO-TOX'YD-IZE, v.t.

To combine in the proportion of one equivalent of oxygen, and one of any base, without producing any acid properties.

PRO-TRACT', n.

Tedious continuance. [Not used.] – Spenser.

PRO-TRACT', v.t. [L. protractus, from protraho; pro and traho, to draw.]

1. To draw out or lengthen in time; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a discussion; to protract a war or a negotiation.
2. To delay; to defer; to put off to a distant time; as, to protract the decision of a question; to protract the final issue.

PRO-TRACT'ED, pp.

Drawn out in time; delayed.

PRO-TRACT'ED-LY, adv.

In a prolonged or protracted manner; tediously.

PRO-TRACT'ER, n.

One who protracts or lengthens in time.

PRO-TRACT'ING, ppr.

Drawing out or continuing in time; delaying.

PRO-TRAC'TION, n.

The act of drawing out or continuing in time; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; as, the protraction of a debate.

PRO-TRACT'IVE, a.

Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. – Dryden.

PRO-TRACT'OR, n.

An instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper with accuracy and dispatch, and by which the use of the line of chords is superseded. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular. – Encyc.

PRO-TREP'TIC-AL, a. [Gr. προτρεπτικος, from προτρεπω, προτρεπομαι, to exhort; προ and τρεπω, to turn.]

Hortatory; suasory; intended or adapted to persuade. [Little used.] – Ward.

PRO-TRUDE, v.i.

To shoot forward; to be thrust forward The parts protrude beyond the skin. – Bacon.

PRO-TRUDE, v.t. [L. protrudo; pro and trudo, to thrust. See Thrust.]

1. To thrust forward; to drive or force along; as, food protracted from the stomach into the intestine. – Locke.
2. To thrust out, as from confinement. The contents of the abdomen are protruded in hernia.

PRO-TRUD-ED, pp.

Thrust forward or out.

PRO-TRUD-ING, ppr.

Thrusting forward or out.

PRO-TRU'SION, n. [s as z.]

The act of thrusting forward or beyond the usual limit; a thrusting or driving; a push. – Locke.

PRO-TRU'SIVE, a.

Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion. – Darwin.

PRO-TU'BER-ANCE, n. [L. protuberans, protubero; pro and tuber, a puff, bunch or knob.]

A swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; any thing swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; on the surface of the earth, a hill, knoll or other elevation. – Hale. More. Protuberance differs from projection, being applied to parts that rise from the surface with a gradual ascent or small angle; whereas a projection may be at a right angle with the surface.

PRO-TU'BER-ANT, a.

Swelling; prominent beyond the surrounding surface; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye.

PRO-TU'BER-ANT-LY, adv.

In the way of protuberance.

PRO-TU'BER-ATE, v.i. [L. protubero, supra.]

To swell or be prominent beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. If the navel proterberates, make a small puncture with a lancet through the skin. – Sharp.

PRO-TU-BER-A'TION, n.

The act of swelling beyond the surrounding surface. – Cooke.

PRO-TU'BER-OUS, a.

Protuberant. – Smith.

PROUD, a. [Sax. prut; D. preutsch, proud, prudish, also prat, proud, and pratten, to fret. We find in the Italian, prode is valiant, brave; proda, the prow of a ship; prodezza, prowess; probably of the same family, with the radical sense of swelling, stretching or erecting. See Prude.]

1. Having inordinate self-esteem; possessing a high or unreasonable conceit of one's own excellence, either of body or mind. A man may be proud of his person, of his talent, of his accomplishments, or of his achievements. He may be proud of any thing to which he bears some relation. He may be proud of his country, his government, his equipage, or of whatever may, by association, gratify his esteem of himself. He may even he proud of his religion or of his church. He conceives that any thing excellent or valuable, in which he has a share, or to which he stands related, contributes to his own importance, and this conception exalts his opinion of himself. Proud is followed by of, before the object, supra.
2. Arrogant; haughty; supercilious. A foe so proud will not the weaker seek. – Milton.
3. Daring; presumptuous. By his understanding he smiteth through the proud. – Job xxvi.
4. Lofty of mien; grand of person; as, a proud steed. – Milton.
5. Grand; lofty; splendid; magnificent. Storms of stones from the proud temple's hight. – Dryden.
6. Ostentatious; grand; as, proud titles. – Shak.
7. Splendid; exhibiting grandeur and distinction; exciting pride; as, a proud day for Rome.
8. Excited by the animal appetite; applied particularly to the female of the canine species.
9. Fungous; as, proud flesh. – Sharp.

PROUD'ER, a. [comp.]

More proud.