protester (protester)

[ Were I a common laugher, or did use To stale with ordinary oaths my love To every new protester . Shak ., J. C., i. 2. 74. A Protestant, a protester , belonging nearly always to an extreme minority, is inevitably disliked - sometimes feared, but always disliked. Sharp, D. G. Ro etti, ii. 2. One who protests a bill of exchange, etc.3. [ cap .] Specifically, in Scottish hist . , a member of a party which protested against the union of the Royalists with the Presbyterians in 1650. Also spelled Protestor . After having been long comrades, they had parted in some unkindne , at the time when the Kingdom of Scotland was divided into Resolutioners and Protesters : the former of whom adhered to Charles II. after his father's death upon the scaffold, while the Protesters inclined rather to a union with the triumphant republicans. Scott , Old Mortality, v. protestingly (prō-tes'ting-li), adv. [ Protestor (pro-tes'tor), n. Same as Protester, 3. Proteus (pro'tūs or -tē-us), n. [L., and Tethys, who had the power of a uming different shapes.-2. [NL.] A genus of tailed amphibians, typical of the family Proteidæ, Proteus anguinus. 4796 the spore in the higher cryptogams, and which bears the sexual organs (antheridia and archegonia). It is rarely more than one tenth of an inch in length, is composed of cellular ti ue, and bears the antheridia and archegonia on its under surface. After fertilization the oösphere remains for a time within the archegonium, and proceeds to grow by the ordinary proce es of cell-multiplication, until finally it breaks through the walls of the archegonium differentiated into its first root and leaf. The young plant continues to draw its nourishment for a time from the prothallium, but it soon develops root-hairs which extend into the soil and render it independent of the prothallium, which, having accomplished its purpose, withers away. See fern1, Musci, Ophioglo aceæ. Also prothallus, pro to thallus.