The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protrude \Pro*trude"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protruded; p. pr. & vb. n. Protruding.] [L. protrudere, protrusum; pro forward + trudere to thrust. See Threat.]
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
--Locke.-
To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.
When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems.
--Thomson.
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vb. (en-past of: protrude)
Usage examples of "protruded".
A friend whose attention I had called to the subject, observed that when he rubbed his horse's neck, the animal protruded his head, uncovered his teeth, and moved his jaws, exactly as if nibbling another horse's neck, for he could never have nibbled his own neck.
They then approached close and protruded their lips towards the image, as if to kiss it, in exactly the same manner as they had previously done towards each other, when first placed, a few days before, in the same room.
They sat opposite, touching each other with their much protruded lips.
Mansel Weale informs me that he has seen the lips much protruded, not only with the children of the Kafirs, but with the adults of both sexes when sulky.
Their mouths are protruded apparently for the sake of making the various noises proper to these several states of mind.
If then our semi human progenitors protruded their lips when sulky or a little angered, in the same manner as do the existing anthropoid apes, it is not an anomalous, though a curious fact, that our children should exhibit, when similarly affected, a trace of the same expression, together with some tendency to utter a noise.
Taplin, rage, with the Australians, is expressed by the lips being protruded, the eyes being widely open.
The mouth is opened widely, with the upper lip strongly retracted, which wrinkles the sides of the nose, and with the lower lip protruded and everted as much as possible.
If the mouth is not much opened, whilst the lips are considerably protruded, a blowing, hissing, or whistling noise is produced.
The arms may be protruded, as if to avert some dreadful danger, or may be thrown wildly over the head.
We may, also, feel almost certain that they would have protruded their lips, when sulky or disappointed, in a greater degree than is the case with our own children, or even with the children of existing savage races.
His eye protruded in DeVeer's direction and then rolled ur into his head as he slid to the floor.
Barnstable's eyes protruded and his face flushed with either surprise or anger but Todd kept his ingenuous smile in place.
Hers was next to the bed on a wooden shelf that protruded from the wall.
Sassinak could look out and see the bridge crew: the officer of the deck in the command module - or, more often, standing behind it, overlooking the others from the narrow eminence that protruded into the bridge like a low stage.