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xcessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body; as, the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge. The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. Dryden.

The protuberant part of a cask, which is usually in the middle.

Swollen; protuberant.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

Having the shape of a bottle; protuberant. Shak.

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.…

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

To swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward.

Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.

Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave. Drops of water naturally form themselves into figures with a convex surface. Whewell. Double convex, convex on both sides; convexo-conv…

Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form. Sir T. Browne.

Swollen; protuberant. [Obs.] "An embossed carbuncle." Shak.

Swollen out; protuberant. [R.] "Extuberant lips." Gayton.

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. Evelyn.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

Swelling by a regular curve or surface; protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.