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Refresher :: Refresher (n.) An extra fee paid to counsel in a case that has been adjourned from one term to another, or that is unusually protracted..

Tarantism :: Tarantism (n.) A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music..

Protractor :: Protractor (n.) One who, or that which, protracts, or causes protraction..

Protractive :: Protractive (a.) Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.

Malingerer :: Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability..

Protractor :: Protractor (n.) A mathematical instrument for laying down and measuring angles on paper, used in drawing or in plotting. It is of various forms, semicircular, rectangular, or circular..

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extend in length; to lengthen; to protract; to stretch; to extend, as a mass of metal into wire..

Diagraph :: Diagraph (n.) A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale..

Protractor :: Protractor (n.) A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

Intone :: Intone (v. i.) To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate..

Protractile :: Protractile (a.) Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile..

Demicircle :: Demicircle (n.) An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc. It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass..

Lingering :: Lingering (a.) Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease..

Prorogue :: Prorogue (v. t.) To protract; to prolong; to extend.

Prolongation :: Prolongation (n.) The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.

Spin :: Spin (v. t.) To protract; to spend by delays; as, to spin out the day in idleness..

Tickle :: Tickle (v. t.) To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted..

Protraction :: Protraction (n.) The act or process of making a plot on paper.

Elongation :: Elongation (n.) The act of lengthening, or the state of being lengthened; protraction; extension..

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