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- English Word Port Definition To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.
- English Word Port Definition The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.
- English Word Port Definition The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Port Definition To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; -- said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.
- English Word Port-royalist Definition One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it was the home of the Jansenists in the 17th century, among them being Arnauld, Pascal, and other famous scholars. Cf. Jansenist.
- English Word Porta Definition The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.
- English Word Porta Definition The foramen of Monro.
- English Word Portability Definition The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
- English Word Portable Definition Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
- English Word Portable Definition Possible to be endured; supportable.
- English Word Portableness Definition The quality or state of being portable; portability.
- English Word Portace Definition See Portass.
- English Word Portae Definition of Porta
- English Word Portage Definition A sailor's wages when in port.
- English Word Portage Definition The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.
- English Word Portage Definition A porthole.
- English Word Portage Definition The act of carrying or transporting.
- English Word Portage Definition The price of carriage; porterage.
- English Word Portage Definition Capacity for carrying; tonnage.
- English Word Portage Definition A carry between navigable waters. See 3d Carry.
- English Word Portage Definition To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.
- English Word Portage group Definition A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.
- English Word Portague Definition A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.
- English Word Portal Definition A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
- English Word Portal Definition The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
- English Word Portal Definition Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
- English Word Portal Definition By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
- English Word Portal Definition The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
- English Word Portal Definition A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
- English Word Portal Definition Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.