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s through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thomson.

and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Any tooth that juts out. When he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded. Thackeray.

Hernia in which the urinary bladder protrudes; vesical hernia.

Protruded, or grown out, as an evagination; turned inside out; unsheathed; evaginated; as, an evaginate membrane.

wound, of large extent, in the abdomen, through which the greater part of the intestines protrude.

Capable of being thrust out or protruded. J. Fleming.

Standing out or above any surface; protruded. That part of the teeth which is extant above the gums. Ray. A body partly immersed in a fluid and partly extant. Bentley.

A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin, as:

nia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.

water, for opening or closing communication between two gas mains, the open ends of which protrude about the water.

holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap.

, rounded spots upon the stem or branch of a plant, from which the underlying tissues may protrude or roots may issue, either in the air, or more commonly when the stem or branch is covered with water or earth.

To protrude. "Pouting lips." Dryden.

ion, applied to various tubelike mouth organs of the lower animals that can be everted or protruded.

To fall down or out; to protrude.

To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.

Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.

That may be protruded; protrusile. Darwin.

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.