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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.
Porret
n.
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A scallion; a leek or small onion.
Porridge
n.
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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.
Porringer
n.
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A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
Port
n.
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A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
Port
v.
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A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
Port
v.
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In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.
Port
n.
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A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
Port
n.
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An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening.
Port
n.
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A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.
Porting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Port
Port
v. t.
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To carry; to bear; to transport.
Port
v. t.
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To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.
Port
n.
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The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port.
Port
n.
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The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.
Port
v. t.
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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.
Portae
pl.
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of Porta
Porta
n.
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The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.
Porta
n.
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The foramen of Monro.