PORISM
PO'RISM, noun [Gr. acquisition, to gain, a passing, to pass.]In geometry, a name given by ancient geometers to two classes of propositions. Euclid gave this name to propositions...
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PORISTIC
PORIS'TICPORIS'TICAL, adjective Pertaining to a porism; seeking to determine by what means and in how many ways a problem may be solved.
PORISTICAL
PORIS'TICAL, a. Pertaining to a porism; seeking to determine by what means and in how many ways a problem may be solved.
PORITE
PO'RITE, nounplural porites. A petrified madrepore.
PORK
PORK, noun [Latin porcus, a hog or pig; porca, a ridge; or from his snout and rooting.] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
PORKEATER
PORK'EATER, noun One that feeds on swine's flesh.
PORKER
PORKER, noun A hog; a pig. [Not used in America.]
PORKET
PORKET, noun A young hog.
PORKLING
PORKLING, noun A pig.
POROSITY
POROS'ITY, noun [from porous.] The quality or state of having pores or interstices.
POROUS
PO'ROUS, adjective [from pore.] Having interstices in the skin or substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; as a porous skin; porous wood; porous earth.
POROUSNESS
PO'ROUSNESS, noun The quality of having pores, porosity; as the porousness of the skin of an animal, or of wood, or of fossils.1. The porous parts. [Not authorized.]
PORPESS
POR'PESS, noun In zoology, a cetaceous fish of the genus Delphinus, whose back is usually blackish or brown, whence it is called in Dutch, bruinvisch, brown fish; the body is th...
PORPHYRACEOUS
PORPHYRA'CEOUS, adjective [See Porphyry.] Pertaining to porphyry; resembling porphyry.1. Containing or composed of porphyry; as porphyraceous mountains.
PORPHYRITIC
PORPHYRIT'ICPOR'PHYRIZE, verb transitive To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in its composition.
PORPHYRIZE
POR'PHYRIZE, v.t. To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in its composition.
PORPHYRY
POR'PHYRY, noun [Gr. purple; Latin porphyrites.] A mineral consisting of a homogeneous ground with crystals of some other mineral imbedded, giving to the mass a speckled complex...
PORPHYRY-SHELL
PORPHYRY-SHELL, noun An animal or shell of the genus Murex. It is of the snail kind, the shell consisting of one spiral valve. From one species of this genus was formerly obtain...
PORPITE
POR'PITEPOR'PITES, noun The hair-button-stone, a small species of fossil coral of a roundish figure, flattened and striated from the center to the circumference; found immersed ...
PORPITES
POR'PITES, n. The hair-button-stone, a small species of fossil coral of a roundish figure, flattened and striated from the center to the circumference; found immersed in stone.
PORRACEOUS
PORRA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin porraceus, from porrum, a leek or onion.]Greenish; resembling the leek in color.
PORRECTION
PORREC'TION, noun [Latin porrectio, porrigo; per or por; Eng. for, fore, and rego; to reach.] The act of stretching forth. [Not used.]
PORRET
POR'RET, noun [Latin porrum.] A scallion; a leek or small onion.
PORRIDGE
POR'RIDGE, noun [Latin farrago, or from porrum, a leek.]A kind of food made by boiling meat in water; broth.This mixture is usually called in America, broth or soup, but not por...
PORRIDGE-POT
POR'RIDGE-POT, noun The pot in which flesh, or flesh and vegetables are boiled for food.
PORRINGER
POR'RINGER, noun1. A small metal vessel in which children eat porridge or milk, or used in the nursery for warming liquors.2. A head-dress in the shape of a porringer; in contempt.
PORT
PORT, noun [Latin portus, porto, to carry; Latin fero; Eng. to bear.]1. A harbor; a haven; any bay, cove, inlet or recess of the sea or of a lake or the mouth of a river, which ...