A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.

Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.

Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.

Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritid/.

An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.

A hog.

A young hog; a pig.

A pig; a porket.

The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.

Lascivious; licentious.

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.

A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.

A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.

Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.

In a porous manner.

The quality of being porous.

Porcupine.

A porpoise.

Porphyritic.

Porphyry.

A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.

Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.

The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.

To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.

The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.

A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.

A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Any small cetacean of the genus Phoc/na, especially Phoc/na communis, or Phoc/na phoc/na, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (Phoc/na Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.

A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by medi/val artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.

A porpoise.

Resembling the leek in color; greenish.

Extended horizontally; stretched out.

The act of stretching forth.

A scallion; a leek or small onion.

A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.

A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.

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.

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.

The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus. The foramen of Monro.

The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.

Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.

The quality or state of being portable; portability.

See Portass.

To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.

A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling.

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.

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.

See Port, carriage, demeanor.

A breviary; a prayer book.

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

Portable.

A portcullis.

A metallic handle with a clasp for holding a crayon.

To obstruct with, or as with, a portcullis; to shut; to bar.

The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

A large doorway allowing vehicles to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-coch/re. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

Having gates.

A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.

To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding.

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.

Presaging; foreshadowing.

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous.

A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, etc.; for hire.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

See Portress.

A house where porter is sold.

See Porteass.

A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.

A sword bearer.

An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.

One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached.

See Portass.

A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

Furnished with a portico.

A curtain hanging across a doorway.

See Portague.

Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese. A Portuguese.

To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.

One who portions.

A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.

Having no portion.

See Portass.

The portoise. See Portoise.

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness.

Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.

An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys.

A word formed by joining two others; -- as, smog is formed from smoke and fog.

A portmanteau.

In old English law, a court, or mote, held in a port town.

One who, or that which, bears; hence, one who, or that which, produces.

The gunwale of a ship.

See Portass.

A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands.

To portray; to draw.

A portrait painter.

To represent by a portrait, or as by a portrait; to portray.

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

One who portrays.

A port warden.

A female porter.

Public or open sale; auction.

A breviary.

Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.

A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacace/), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.

See Polliwig.

Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.

To interrogate; to question.

Firm; determined; fixed.

One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.

A person who poses or attitudizes, esp. mentally.

Inscribed with a posy.

So as to pose or puzzle.