protuberancy
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The marks were blewish, very small, and had no protuberancy above the skin.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
He was of that easy sort of feather-bed corpulency of form that betokens good-nature, and had none of that smooth, red, well-filled protuberancy, which indicates a choleric humour and a testy temper.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by John Galt
He seems to go backwards and forwards with a torch, throwing knobs, jags, wrinkles, corrugations, protuberancies, cavities, horns, and snouts into terrifying illumination.
From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys
But suffering it without rubbing or scratching, the itching tickling pain quickly grew languid, and within an hour I felt nothing at all, and the little protuberancies were vanish'd.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
