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- English Word Portrait Definition To portray; to draw.
- English Word Portraitist Definition A portrait painter.
- English Word Portraiture Definition A portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.
- English Word Portraiture Definition Pictures, collectively; painting.
- English Word Portraiture Definition The art or practice of making portraits.
- English Word Portraiture Definition To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.
- English Word Portray Definition To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
- English Word Portray Definition Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
- English Word Portray Definition To adorn with pictures.
- English Word Portrayal Definition The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
- English Word portrayed Definition of Portray
- English Word Portrayer Definition One who portrays.
- English Word Portraying Definition of Portray
- English Word Portreeve Definition A port warden.
- English Word Portress Definition A female porter.
- English Word Portsale Definition Public or open sale; auction.
- English Word Portuary Definition A breviary.
- English Word Portuguese Definition Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
- English Word Portuguese Definition A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.
- English Word Portulaca Definition A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.
- English Word Portulacaceous Definition Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.
- English Word Porwigle Definition See Polliwig.
- English Word Pory Definition Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
- English Word Pose Definition Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
- English Word Pose Definition A cold in the head; catarrh.
- English Word Pose Definition The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
- English Word Pose Definition To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
- English Word Pose Definition To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
- English Word Pose Definition To interrogate; to question.
- English Word Pose Definition To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.