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Protract :: Protract (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.

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..

Protracting :: Protracting (p. pr. vb. n.) of Protrac.

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

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

Howl :: Howl (n.) The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound..

Protraction :: Protraction (n.) A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate..

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

Short :: Short (superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath..

Interminable :: Interminable (a.) Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings..

Overspin :: Overspin (v. t.) To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly.

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

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

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

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..

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..

Yowl :: Yowl (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl..

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot..

Continue :: Continue (v. t.) To protract or extend in duration; to preserve or persist in; to cease not.

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

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