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n.
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
pl.
of Porta
n. pl.
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
v. t.
A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
n.
By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
n.
A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
n.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
pl.
of Vena
a.
Portable.
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Both renal and portal. See Portal.
n.
The quality or state of being portable; portability.
a.
Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
n.
A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
a.
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.
n.
Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
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Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
n.
The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
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A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
n.
See Portass.
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Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
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