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- 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.
- English Word Portamento Definition In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.
- English Word Portance Definition See Port, carriage, demeanor.
- English Word Portass Definition A breviary; a prayer book.
- English Word Portate Definition Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
- English Word Portative Definition Portable.
- English Word Portative Definition Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
- English Word Portcluse Definition A portcullis.
- English Word Portcrayon Definition A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.
- English Word Portcullis Definition A grating of iron or of timbers pointed with iron, hung over the gateway of a fortress, to be let down to prevent the entrance of an enemy.
- English Word Portcullis Definition An English coin of the reign of Elizabeth, struck for the use of the East India Company; -- so called from its bearing the figure of a portcullis on the reverse.