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-- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.

Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward; as, projectile motion. Arbuthnot.

Design; contrivance; projection. [Obs.] Clarendon.

A sharp projection, as of an antler.

Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

The act of leaping forth or forward; projection. "Such prosiliency of relief." Coleridge.

ng to a radius or ray; consisting of, or like, radii or rays; radiated; as, (Bot.) radial projections; (Zoöl.) radial vessels or canals; (Anat.) the radial artery. Radial symmetry. (Biol.) See under Symmetry.

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.

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

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.

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

Projectiong outwardly; as, a salient angle; -- opposed to reëntering. See Illust. of Bastion.

at filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

heer hulk. See Shear hulk, under Hulk. -- Sheer plan, or Sheer draught (Shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel. -- Sheer pole (Naut.), an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines.…

joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections; knobbing.

the surface of a sphere bounded by the arcs of three or more great circles. -- Spherical projection, the projection of the circles of the sphere upon a plane. See Projection. -- Spherical sector. See under Sector. -- Spherical segment, the segment of a sphere. See under Segment. -- Spherical triangle,re on the surf…

A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.