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o the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to accomplish; as, to realize a scheme or project. We realize what Archimedes had only in hypothesis, weighting a single grain against the globe of earth. Glanvill.

The projection of a figure above the ground or plane on wwhich it is formed.

The projection or shoulder at the side of, or around, a tenon, on a tenoned piece. Knight.

as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through it; the resistance of a target to projectiles.

A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance. Their visors closed, their lances in the rest. Dryden.

To come to life again; to revive. These projects, however often slain, always resuscitate. J. S. Mill.

A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

side of the groove is made deeper than the other, to facilitate loading with shot having projections which enter by the deeper part of the grooves.

sphere in such a position that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles; in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator.

To move upward under the influence of a projecting force; as, a bullet rises in the air.

redients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick. The rocket is projected through the air by the force arising from the expansion of the gases liberated by combustion of the composition. Rockets are used as projectiles for various purposes, for signals, and also for pyrotechnic display.…

or the Porch." De Quincey. (b) (Zoöl.) The cigar fish. -- Round shot, a solid spherical projectile for ordnance. -- Round Table, the table about which sat King Arthur and his knights. See Knights of the Round Table, under Knight. -- Round tower, one of certain lofty circular stone towers, tapering from the base upw…

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton.

One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous. (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.

A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling.

The quality or state of projecting, or being projected; projection; protrusion. Sir W. Hamilton.

Shooting out up; springing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke.

A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking or swaying motion in the current. [U.S.]