Available Definitions:
1) a. - Prolonged; continued.
2) v. t. - To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
3) v. t. - To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
4) v. t. - To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.
5) n. - Tedious continuance or delay.