- Stick out - To thrust forward; to drive or force along. - To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from
confinement; to cause to come forth. - To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend
beyond a limit; to project.
- A condition of the eye in which, through shortness of
the eyeball or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to
a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia.
Cf. Emmetropia.