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.

See Portague.

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 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.

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

To indicate the position of; to place.

Of or pertaining to position.

That which is capable of being affirmed; reality.

In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively.

The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a.

A system of philosophy originated by M. Auguste Comte, which deals only with positives. It excludes from philosophy everything but the natural phenomena or properties of knowable things, together with their invariable relations of coexistence and succession, as occurring in time and space. Such relations are denominated laws, which are to be discovered by observation, experiment, and comparison. This philosophy holds all inquiry into causes, both efficient and final, to be useless and unprofitable.

A believer in positivism. Relating to positivism.

Positiveness.

See Posture.

A little basin; a porringer; a skillet.

Pertaining to posology.

The science or doctrine of doses; dosology.

A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which, in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.

To push; to dash; to throw.

See Posse comitatus.

To occupy in person; to hold or actually have in one's own keeping; to have and to hold.

To invest with property.

Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.

A possessor; a property holder.

Of or pertaining to the possessive case; as, a possessival termination.

The possessive case.

In a possessive manner.

One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor.

Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord.

To curdle; to turn, as milk; to coagulate; as, to posset the blood.

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing.

Capable of existing or occurring, or of being conceived or thought of; able to happen; capable of being done; not contrary to the nature of things; -- sometimes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong.

In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover.

An opossum.

With post horses; hence, in haste; as, to travel post.

See under 4th Post.