Word Meanings - PROTRACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Thistle
  Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
• Thar
  A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo.
• Three-flowered
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• Theophilanthropy
  Theophilanthropism.
• Thuggee
  The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
• Thermotropism
  The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen in the growing parts of some plants.
• THERMO
  A combining form from Gr. qe`rmh heat, qermo`s hot, warm; as in thermochemistry, thermodynamic.
• Continuities
  of Continuity
• Thomite
  A Thomaean.
• Thaumaturgus
  A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.
• Three-sided
  Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
• Theorica
  Public moneys expended at Athens on festivals, sacrifices, and public entertainments (especially theatrical performances), and in gifts to the people; -- also called theoric fund.
• Thump
  The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
• Theta
  A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death.
• THERMOPHORE
  An apparatus for conveying heat, as a case containing material which retains its heat for a considerable period.
• Delayingly
  By delays.
• Thoral
  Of or pertaining to a bed.
• Thearchy
  Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.
• Threshwold
  Threshold.
• Theosophist
  One addicted to theosophy.

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