protract

To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong.

To draw to scale by means of a scale and protractor; plot.

To extend or protrude (a body part).

A lengthening out; delay; putting off.

To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong: now chiefly in the past participle.

To lengthen out in space; extend in general.

To delay; defer; put off to a distant time.

In surveying, to draw to a scale; lay down, by means of a scale and protractor, the lines and angles of, as a piece of land; plot.

In anatomy, to draw forward (a part or an organ); extend (a part) anteriorly; have the action or effect of a protractor upon.

Tedious continuance or delay.