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Protractor :: Protractor (n.) An instrument formerly used in extracting foreign or offensive matter from a wound.

Protract :: Protract (v. t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract..

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

Prolix :: Prolix (a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Rhynchobdellea :: Rhynchobdellea (n. pl.) A suborder of leeches including those that have a protractile proboscis, without jaws. Clepsine is the type..

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

Protracted :: Protracted (a.) Prolonged; continued.

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..

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

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..

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..

Tract :: Tract (v.) Continued or protracted duration; length; extent.

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

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..

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