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protuberate, v. rare.|prəʊˈtjuːbəreɪt|
[f. late L. prōtūberāt-, ppl. stem of prōtūberāre: see protuberant.]
intr. To bulge out; to form a rounded prominence.
1578Banister Hist. Man i. 26 The inner region..hath cauities..which on the outer side agayne do protuberate and giue forth. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 11 Hippocrates..writes, That the head sometimes doth more remarkably protuberate at the eares, then either forward or backward. 1721Bradley Philos. Acc. Wks. Nat. 126 We see the..Fore-legs half out, and the other just beginning to protuberate through the skin. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 483 Mesenteric enlargement..felt in the form of knots protuberating in the abdomen.
b. trans. To cause to bulge out or project. rare.
1884A. A. Watts Life A. Watts I. 302 The manly breast protuberated by waistcoats fashioned like a doublet.
Hence proˈtuberated ppl. a., swollen or bulged out; proˈtuberating vbl. n., a swelling; proˈtuberating ppl. a., bulging out.
1683A. Snape Anat. Horse v. xii. (1686) 221 The fourth Bone..is smooth, not being hollow nor *protuberated as the rest are. 1755Nedham in Phil. Trans. XLIX. 239 The circumference of which was full, and protuberated.
1667Phil. Trans. II. 564 Suffering grievous *Protuberatings of the bones in his Arms.
1615Crooke Body of Man 977 These Rack-bones haue in the middle *protuberating, round and embowed bodies. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 285 In others, the nectary is blunt, scarcely protuberating. |