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Porkwood
n.
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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.
Pornerastic
a.
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Lascivious; licentious.
Pornographic
a.
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Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
Pornography
n.
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Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
Pornography
n.
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A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
Porosity
n.
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The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
Porotic
n.
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A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
Porous
n.
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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.
Porously
adv.
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In a porous manner.
Porousness
n.
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The quality of being porous.
Porousness
n.
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The open parts; the interstices of anything.
Porpentine
n.
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Porcupine.
Porpesse
n.
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A porpoise.
Porphyraceous
a.
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Porphyritic.
Porphyre
n.
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Porphyry.
Porphyrite
n.
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A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
Porphyritic
a.
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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.
Porphyrization
n.
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The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
Porphyrize
v. t.
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To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
Porphyrogenitism
n.
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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.
Porphyries
pl.
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of Porphyry
Porphyry
n.
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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.
Porpita
n.
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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.
Porpoise
n.
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Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. 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.
Porpoise
n.
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A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
Porporino
n.
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A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.
Porpus
n.
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A porpoise.
Porraceous
a.
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Resembling the leek in color; greenish.
Porrect
a.
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Extended horizontally; stretched out.
Porrection
n.
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The act of stretching forth.