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 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.

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.

That part of a crustacean behind the cephalothorax; -- more commonly called abdomen.

A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was /posted,/ in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fallen into disuse.

A subsequent disseizin committed by one of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor; a writ founded on such subsequent disseizin, now abolished.

A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor.

A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.

In the broadest sense, the theory or practice of any of several groups of painters of the early 1900's, or of these groups taken collectively, whose work and theories have in common a tendency to reaction against the scientific and naturalistic character of impressionism and neo-impressionism. In a strict sense the term post-impressionism is used to denote the effort at self-expression, rather than representation, shown in the work of C/zanne, Matisse, etc.; but it is more broadly used to include cubism, the theory or practice of a movement in both painting and sculpture which lays stress upon volume as the important attribute of objects and attempts its expression by the use of geometrical figures or solids only; and futurism, a theory or practice which attempts to place the observer within the picture and to represent simultaneously a number of consecutive movements and impressions. In practice these theories and methods of the post-impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art becomes a purely subjective expression in an arbitrary and personal language.

A small sheet of paper having the back part partly covered with a non-permanent gum which allows the note to be attached temporarily to another object, and easily removed without leaving any trace of glue on the object to which it was affixed. Such note papers are sold in pads of varying sizes.

After death; as, post-mortem rigidity.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations.

Situated back of the temporal bone or the temporal region of the skull; -- applied especially to a bone which usually connects the supraclavicle with the skull in the pectoral arch of fishes. A post-temporal bone.

A ridge within and behind the tragus in the ear of some animals.

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

Capable of being carried by, or as by, post.

An act done afterward.

The price established by law to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post.