PORT-BAR
PORT-BAR, noun A bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale of wind.Port-charges, in commerce, charges to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor, as wharfage, etc.
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PORT-CRAYON
PORT-CRAYON, noun A pencil-case.
PORT-FIRE
PORT-FIRE, noun A composition for setting fire to powder, etc. frequently used in preference to a match. It is wet or dry. The wet is composed of saltpeter, four parts, of sulph...
PORT-HOLE
PORT-HOLE, noun [port and hole.]The embrasure of a ship of war. [See Port.]
PORT-MAN
PORT-MAN, noun [port and man.] An inhabitant or burgess, as of a cinque port.
PORT-MOTE
PORT-MOTE, noun Anciently, a court held in a port town.PORTOISE. [See Portlast.]
PORT-ROPE
PORT-ROPE, noun A rope to draw up a portlid.
PORTABLE
PORTABLE, adjective [Latin porto, to carry.]1. That may be carried by the hand or about the person, on horseback, or in a traveling vehicle; not bulky or heavy; that may be easi...
PORTABLENESS
PORTABLENESS, noun The quality of being portable.
PORTAGE
PORTAGE, noun The act of carrying.1. The price of carriage.2. A port-hole. [Unusual.]3. A carrying place over land between navigable waters.
PORTAL
PORTAL, noun In architecture, a little gate, where there are two gates of different dimensions.1. A little square corner of a room, separated from the rest by a wainscot, and fo...
PORTANCE
PORTANCE, noun Air; mien; carriage; port; demeanor.
PORTASS
PORTASS, noun A breviary; a prayer book. [portuis, porthose.][Not used.]
PORTATIVE
PORTATIVE, adjective Portable. [Not used.]
PORTCULLIS
PORTCUL'LIS, noun [Latin clausus.] In fortification, an assemblage of timbers joined across one another, like those of a harrow, and each pointed with iron; hung over the gatewa...
PORTCULLISED
PORTCUL'LISED, adjective Having a portcullis.
PORTE
PORTE, noun The Ottoman court, so called from the gate of the Sultan's palace where justice is administered; as the Sublime porte
PORTED
PORTED, adjective Having gates. [Not used.]1. Borne in a certain or regular order.
PORTEND
PORTEND', verb transitive [Latin portendo; por; Eng. fore, and tendo, to stretch.] To foreshow; to foretoken; to indicate something future by previous signs.A moist and cool sum...
PORTENDED
PORTEND'ED, participle passive Foreshown; previously indicated by signs.
PORTENDING
PORTEND'ING, participle present tense Foreshowing.
PORTENSION
PORTEN'SION, noun The act of foreshowing. [Not in use.]
PORTENT
PORTENT', noun [Latin portentum.] An omen of ill; any previous sign or prodigy indicating the approach of evil or calamity.My loss by dire portents the god foretold.
PORTENTOUS
PORTENT'OUS, adjective [Latin portentosus.] Ominous; foreshowing ill. Ignorance and superstition hold meteors to be portentous1. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sens...
PORTER
PORTER, noun [Latin porta, a gate.]1. A man that has the charge of a door or gate; a door-keeper.2. One that waits at the door to receive messages.3. [Latin porto.] A carrier; a...
PORTERAGE
PORTERAGE, noun Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens by a porter.1. The business of a porter or door-keeper.
PORTERESS
PORTERESS, noun [from porter.] A female guardian of a gate.