project

PROJECT', v.t. [L. projicio; pro, forward,and jacio, to throw.]

1. To throw out; to cast or shoot forward.

Th' ascending villas

Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide.

2. To cast forward in the mind; to scheme; to contrive; to devise something to be done; as, to project a plan for paying off the national debt; to project an expedition to South America; to project peace or war.

3. To draw or exhibit, as the form of any thing; to delineate.

PROJECT', v.i. To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to jut; to be prominent; as, the cornice projects.