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Portraying
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Portray
Portray
v. t.
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To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Portray
v. t.
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Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
Portray
v. t.
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To adorn with pictures.
Portrayal
n.
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The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.
Portrayer
n.
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One who portrays.
Portreeve
n.
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A port warden.
Portress
n.
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A female porter.
Port-royalist
n.
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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.
Portsale
n.
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Public or open sale; auction.
Portuary
n.
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A breviary.
Portuguese
a.
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Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
Portuguese
n. sing. & pl.
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A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.
Portulaca
n.
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A genus of polypetalous plants; also, any plant of the genus.
Portulacaceous
a.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Portulacaceae), of which Portulaca is the type, and which includes also the spring beauty (Claytonia) and other genera.
Porwigle
n.
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See Polliwig.
Pory
a.
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Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden.
Pose
a.
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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.
Pose
n.
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A cold in the head; catarrh.
Pose
v. t.
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The attitude or position of a person; the position of the body or of any member of the body; especially, a position formally assumed for the sake of effect; an artificial position; as, the pose of an actor; the pose of an artist's model or of a statue.
Posed
imp. & p. p.
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of Pose
Posing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Pose
Pose
v. t.
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To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect; to arrange the posture and drapery of (a person) in a studied manner; as, to pose a model for a picture; to pose a sitter for a portrait.
Pose
v. i.
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To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude.
Pose
v. t.
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To interrogate; to question.
Pose
v. t.
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To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
Posed
a.
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Firm; determined; fixed.
Poser
n.
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One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicable question or fact.
Posied
a.
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Inscribed with a posy.
Posingly
adv.
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So as to pose or puzzle.