protuberancy
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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 Galt, John
The marks were blewish, very small, and had no protuberancy above the skin.
From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
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 Powys, John Cowper
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 Hooke, Robert
