The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Project \Pro*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Projected; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Projecting.] [Cf. OF. projecter, F. projeter.]
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   1. To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
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            Before his feet herself she did project. --Spenser.
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            Behold! th' ascending villas on my side
            Project long shadows o'er the crystal tide. --Pope.
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   2. To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to
      devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan.
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            What sit then projecting peace and war? --Milton.
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   3. (Persp.) To draw or exhibit, as the form of anything; to
      delineate; as, to project a sphere, a map, an ellipse, and
      the like; -- sometimes with on, upon, into, etc.; as, to
      project a line or point upon a plane. See Projection, 4.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

projecting
    adj 1: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
           jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses";
           "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over
           the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected,
           projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p),
           sticking out(p)]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "projecting":
   beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile,
   excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendent, impending,
   incumbent, jutting, lowering, outstanding, overhanging, overhung,
   pending, prognathous, prominent, protrudent, protruding,
   protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient,
   superincumbent