Protastacus (prot as tak us)

[NL., Gr. πρῶτος, first, + αστακός, a lobster.] A hypo thetical ancestral marine form from which the existing fluviatile Potamobiidæ and Parasta cidæ may have been developed. Huxley, 1878. protatic (pro-tat'ik), a. [L. protatic us, There are indeed some protatick persons in the ancients whom they make use of in their plays either to hear or give the relation. Dryden , E ay on Dram. Poesy. Pro tax on i a (prō-tak-sō'ni-i), n. pl. [NL., protaxonial (prō-tak-sō'ni-al), a. [ [ Pro tea + -accous.] Of or pertaining to the Prote accæ. Protean (prō'tē-an), a. and n. [ Your Protean turnings cannot change my purpose. Beau . and Fl ., Thierry and Theodoret, iv. 2. All the Protean transformations of nature, which happen continually. Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 32. 2. [l.c.] In zoöl . , changeable in form; executing movements involving shifting of shape, as an animalcule; amœbiform or amœboid; amœban; of or pertaining to a proteus-animalcule. Also proteiform . - Protean animalcules, Amabæ . Protean stone, a kind of semi-translucent artificial stone prepared from gypsum. II. n. [l. c.] 1. An actor who plays a number of parts in one piece. (Theatrical slang.] -2. A salamander of the family Proteidæ ; a proteid. Protean a (pro-te-a'na), n . pl . [NL.: see Pro tean .] Same as Proteomyxa . E. R. Lankester. Proteanly (protē-an-li), adv . In a Protean manner; with a umption of different shapes. protection Which matter of the universe is alwaies substantially the same, and neither more nor le , but only Proteanly transformed into different shapes. Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 26. protect (pro-tekt'), v. t. [OF. protecter, It. proteggere = Sp. Pg.proteger = F. protéger ), protect, defend, cover before or over, The gods of Greece protect you! Shak., Pericles, i. 4. 07. Captain, or Colonel, or Knight in arms, Whose chance on these defencele doors may seize, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. Milton , Sonnets, iii. IMG:content-1139.png:[blocks in formation] It is plain, as a matter of fact, that the great ma of men are protected from gro sin by the forms of society. J. H. Newman , Parochial Sermons, i. 131. Six fresh plants were protected [from insects) by separate nets in the year 1870. Two of these proved almost completely self-sterile. Darwin, Cro and Self Fertilisation, p. 338. 2. To act as protector or regent for. Compare protector, 2 ( a ). Car. He will be found a dangerous protector. Buck . Why should he, then, protect our sovereign, He being of age to govern of himself? Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 165. 3. Specifically, in pol it. ccon., to guard or strengthen against foreign competition by means of a protective duty. Whatever increased profits our manufacturers of pro tected articles get, or whatever increased wages they pay their workmen, must come from other cla es - the consumers of their products. The Nation, XLVII. 454. =Syn. 1. Defend , Shelter , etc. (see keep ), screen, secure. protectee (prō-tek-tē′), n . [ protect + -cel .] A person protected; a protégé. [Rare.] Your protectee , White, was clerk to my cousin. W. Taylor , of Norwich, 1807 (Memoirs, II. 198). ( Davies .) protecter, n . See protector. protectingly (prō-tek'ting-li), adv. [ The straw-roofed Cottages,... all hidden and protect ingly folded up in the valley-folds. Carlyle , Sartor Resartus, ii. 9.