1. The porous parts. [Not authorized.] NWAD POROUSNESS.2
Of cetaceous fish, we met with porpesses, or as some sailors call them, sea-hogs. NWAD PORPESS.2
1. Containing or composed of porphyry; as porphyraceous mountains. NWAD PORPHYRITIC.2
Porphyry is very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. NWAD PORPHYRY.2
Porphyry is composed of paste in which are disseminated a multitude of little angular and granuliform parts, of a color different from the ground. NWAD PORPHYRY.3
Greenish; resembling the leek in color. NWAD PORRACEOUS.2
A kind of food made by boiling meat in water; broth. NWAD PORRIDGE.2
This mixture is usually called in America, broth or soup, but not porridge. With us, porridge is a mixture of meal or flour, boiled with water. Perhaps this distinction is not always observed. NWAD PORRIDGE.3
1. A small metal vessel in which children eat porridge or milk, or used in the nursery for warming liquors. NWAD PORRINGER.2
2. A head-dress in the shape of a porringer; in contempt. NWAD PORRINGER.3
1. A harbor; a haven; any bay, cove, inlet or recess of the sea or of a lake or the mouth of a river, which ships or vessels can enter, and where they can lie safe from injury by storms. Ports may be natural or artificial, and sometimes works of art, as piers and moles, are added to the natural shores of a place to render a harbor more safe. The word port is generally applied to spacious harbors much resorted to be ships, as the port of London or of Boston, and not to small bays or coves which are entered occasionally, or in stress of weather only. Harbor includes all places of safety for shipping. NWAD PORT.2
2. A gate. [L. porta.] NWAD PORT.3
From their ivory port the cherubim NWAD PORT.4
Forth issued. NWAD PORT.5
3. An embrasure or opening in the side of a ship of war, through which cannon are discharged; a port-hole. NWAD PORT.6
4. The lid which shuts a port-hole. NWAD PORT.7
5. Carriage; air; mien; manner of movement or walk; demeanor; external appearance; as a proud port; the port of a gentleman. NWAD PORT.8
Their port was more than human. NWAD PORT.9
With more terrific port NWAD PORT.10
Thou walkest. NWAD PORT.11
6. In seamen’s language, the larboard or left side of a ship; as in the phrase,”the ship heels to port.” “Port the helm,” is an order to put the helm to the larboard side. NWAD PORT.12
7. A kind of wine made in Portugal; so called from Oporto. NWAD PORT.13
Port of the voice, in music, the faculty or habit of making the shakes, passages and diminutions, in which the beauty of a song consists. NWAD PORT.14
1. To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship. See the noun, No. 6. It is used in the imperative. NWAD PORT.16
1. That may be carried by the hand or about the person, on horseback, or in a traveling vehicle; not bulky or heavy; that may be easily conveyed from place to place with one’s traveling baggage; as a portable bureau or secretary. NWAD PORTABLE.2
2. That may be carried from place to place. NWAD PORTABLE.3
3. That may be borne along with one. NWAD PORTABLE.4
The pleasure of the religious man is an easy and portable pleasure. NWAD PORTABLE.5
4. Sufferable; supportable. [Not in use.] NWAD PORTABLE.6
1. The price of carriage. NWAD PORTAGE.2
2. A port-hole. [Unusual.] NWAD PORTAGE.3
3. A carrying place over land between navigable waters. NWAD PORTAGE.4
1. A little square corner of a room, separated from the rest by a wainscot, and forming a short passage into a room. NWAD PORTAL.2
2. A kind of arch of joiner’s work before a door. NWAD PORTAL.3
3. A gate; an opening for entrance; as the portals of heaven. NWAD PORTAL.4
[Not used.] NWAD PORTASS.2
Port-charges, in commerce, charges to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor, as wharfage, etc. NWAD PORT-BAR.2
1. Borne in a certain or regular order. NWAD PORTED.2
A moist and cool summer portends a hard winter. NWAD PORTEND.2
My loss by dire portents the god foretold. NWAD PORTENT.2
1. Monstrous; prodigious; wonderful; in an ill sense. NWAD PORTENTOUS.2
No beast of more portentous size, NWAD PORTENTOUS.3
In the Hercynian forest lies. NWAD PORTENTOUS.4
1. A man that has the charge of a door or gate; a door-keeper. NWAD PORTER.2
2. One that waits at the door to receive messages. NWAD PORTER.3
3. [L. porto.] A carrier; a person who carries or conveys burdens for hire. NWAD PORTER.4
4. A malt liquor which differs from ale and pale beer, in being made with high dried malt. NWAD PORTER.5
1. The business of a porter or door-keeper. NWAD PORTERAGE.2
To have or hold the portfolio, is to hold the office of minister of foreign affairs. NWAD PORTFOLIO.2
The embrasure of a ship of war. [See Port.] NWAD PORT-HOLE.2
1. In general, a part of any thing separated from it. Hence, NWAD PORTION.2
2. A part, though not actually divided, but considered by itself. NWAD PORTION.3
These are parts of his ways, but how little a portion is heard of him. Job 26:14. NWAD PORTION.4
3. A part assigned; an allotment; a dividend. NWAD PORTION.5
How small NWAD PORTION.6
A portion to your share would fall. NWAD PORTION.7
The priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh. Genesis 47:22. NWAD PORTION.8
4. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate. NWAD PORTION.9
5. A wife’s fortune. NWAD PORTION.10
And portion to his tribes the wide domain. NWAD PORTION.12
1. To endow. NWAD PORTION.13
Him portion’d maids, apprentic’d orphans blest. NWAD PORTION.14
1. Endowed; furnished with a portion. NWAD PORTIONED.2
1. The incumbent of a benefice which has more rectors or vicars than one. NWAD PORTIONIST.2
To lower the yards a portlast, is to lower them to the gunwale. NWAD PORTLAST.2
To ride a portoise, is to have the lower yards and top-masts struck or lowered down, when at anchor in a gale of wind. NWAD PORTLAST.3
1. Bulky; corpulent. NWAD PORTLY.2
In portraits, the grace, and we may add, the likeness, consist more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature. NWAD PORTRAIT.2
1. To paint or draw the likeness of any thing in colors; as, to portray a king on horseback; to portray a city or temple with a pencil or with chalk. NWAD PORTRAY.2
2. To describe in words. It belongs to the historian to portray the character of Alexander of Russia. Homer portrays the character and achievements of his heroes in glowing colors. NWAD PORTRAY.3
3. To adorn with pictures; as shields portrayed. NWAD PORTRAY.4
The chief magistrate of a port or maritime town. NWAD PORTREVE.2
1. To puzzle, [a word of the same origin;] to set; to put to a stand or stop; to gravel. NWAD POSE.4
Learning was pos’d, philosophy was set. NWAD POSE.5
I design not to pose them with those common enigmas of magnetism. NWAD POSE.6
2. To puzzle or put to a stand by asking difficult questions; to set by questions; hence, to interrogate closely, or with a view to scrutiny. NWAD POSE.7
Put; set; placed. NWAD POSITED.2
1. State of being placed; situation; often with reference to other objects, or to different parts of the same object. NWAD POSITION.2
We have different prospects of the same thing according to our different positions to it. NWAD POSITION.3
2. Manner of standing or being placed; attitude; as an inclining position. NWAD POSITION.4
3. Principle laid down; proposition advanced or affirmed as a fixed principle, or stated as the ground of reasoning, or to be proved. NWAD POSITION.5
Let not the proof of any position depend on the positions that follow, but always on those which precede. NWAD POSITION.6
4. The advancement of any principle. NWAD POSITION.7
5. State; condition. NWAD POSITION.8
Great Britain, at the peace of 1763, stood in a position to prescribe her own terms. NWAD POSITION.9
6. In grammar, the state of a vowel placed between two consonants, as in pompous, or before a double consonant, as in axle. In prosody, vowels are said to be long or short by position. NWAD POSITION.10
1. Properly, set; laid down; expressed; direct; explicit; opposed to implied; as, he told us in positive words; we have his positive declaration to the fact; the testimony is positive. NWAD POSITIVE.2
2. Absolute; express; not admitting any condition or discretion. The commands of the admiral are positive. NWAD POSITIVE.3
3. Absolute; real; existing in fact; opposed to negative, as positive good, which exists by itself, whereas negative good is merely the absence of evil; or opposed to relative or arbitrary, as beauty is not a positive thing, but depends on the different tastes of people. NWAD POSITIVE.4
4. Direct; express; opposed to circumstantial; as positive proof. NWAD POSITIVE.5
5. Confident; fully assured; applied to persons. The witness is very positive that he is correct in his testimony. NWAD POSITIVE.6
6. Dogmatic; over-confident in opinion or assertion. NWAD POSITIVE.7
Some positive persisting fops we know, NWAD POSITIVE.8
That, if once wrong, will needs be always so. NWAD POSITIVE.9
7. Settled by arbitrary appointment; opposed to natural or inbred. NWAD POSITIVE.10
In laws, that which is natural, bindeth universally; that which is positive, not so. NWAD POSITIVE.11
Although no laws but positive are mutable, yet all are not mutable which are positive. NWAD POSITIVE.12
8. Having power to act directly; as a positive voice in legislation. NWAD POSITIVE.13
Positive degree, in grammar, is the state of an adjective which denotes simple or absolute quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as wise, noble. NWAD POSITIVE.14
Positive electricity, according to Dr. Franklin, consists in a superabundance of the fluid in a substance. Others suppose it to consist in a tendency of the fluid outwards. It is not certain in what consists the difference between positive and negative electricity. Positive electricity being produced by rubbing glass, is called the vitreous; negative electricity, produced by rubbing amber or resin, is called the resinous. NWAD POSITIVE.15
1. That which settles by absolute appointment. NWAD POSITIVE.17
2. In grammar, a word that affirms or asserts existence. NWAD POSITIVE.18
Good and evil removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and not positively or simply. NWAD POSITIVELY.2
1. Not negatively; really; in its own nature; directly; inherently. A thing is positively good, when it produces happiness by its own qualities or operation. It is negatively good, when it prevents an evil, or does not produce it. NWAD POSITIVELY.3
2. Certainly; indubitably. This is positively your handwriting. NWAD POSITIVELY.4
3. Directly; explicitly; expressly. The witness testified positively to the fact. NWAD POSITIVELY.5
4. Peremptorily; in strong terms. NWAD POSITIVELY.6
The divine law positively requires humility and meekness. NWAD POSITIVELY.7
5. With full confidence or assurance. I cannot speak positively in regard to the fact. NWAD POSITIVELY.8
Positively electrified, in the science of electricity. A body is said to be positively electrified or charged with electric matter, when it contains a superabundance of the fluid, and negatively electrified or charged, when some part of the fluid which it naturally contains, has been taken from it. NWAD POSITIVELY.9
According to other theorists, when the electric fluid is directed outwards from a body, the substance is electrified positively; but when it is entering or has a tendency to enter another substance, the body is supposed to be negatively electrified. The two species of electricity attract each other, and each repels its own kind. NWAD POSITIVELY.10
The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the will and in the executed act too; the positiveness of sins of omission is in the habitude of the will only. NWAD POSITIVENESS.2
1. Undoubting assurance; full confidence; peremptoriness; as, the man related the facts with positiveness. In matters of opinion, positiveness is not an indication of prudence. NWAD POSITIVENESS.3
In medicine, the science or doctrine of doses. NWAD POSOLOGY.2
Posse comitatus, in law, the power of the country, or the citizens, who are summoned to assist an officer in suppressing a riot, or executing any legal precept which is forcibly opposed. The word comitatus is often omitted, and posse alone is used in the same sense. NWAD POSPOLITE.2
1. In low language, a number or crowd of people; a rabble. NWAD POSPOLITE.3
1. To have the just and legal title, ownership or property of a thing; to own; to hold the title of, as the rightful proprietor, or to hold both the title and the thing. A man may possess the farm which he cultivates, or he may possess an estate in a foreign country, not in his own occupation. He may possess many farms which are occupied by tenants. In this as in other cases, the original sense of the word is enlarged, the holding or tenure being applied to the title or right, as well as to the thing itself. NWAD POSSESS.2
2. To hold; to occupy without title or ownership. NWAD POSSESS.3
I raise up the Chaldeans, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs. Habakkuk 1:6. NWAD POSSESS.4
Neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own. Acts 4:32. NWAD POSSESS.5
3. To have; to occupy. The love of the world usually possesses the heart. NWAD POSSESS.6
4. To seize; to gain; to obtain the occupation of. NWAD POSSESS.7
The English marched towards the river Eske, intending to possess a hill called Under-Eske. NWAD POSSESS.8
5. To have power over; as an invisible agent or spirit. Luke 8:36. NWAD POSSESS.9
Beware what spirit rages in your breast; NWAD POSSESS.10
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possess’d. NWAD POSSESS.11
6. To affect by some power. NWAD POSSESS.12
Let not your ears despise my tongue, NWAD POSSESS.13
Which shall possess them with the heaviest sound NWAD POSSESS.14
That ever yet they heard. NWAD POSSESS.15
To possess of, or with, more properly to possess of, is to give possession, command or occupancy. NWAD POSSESS.16
Of fortune’s favor long possess’d NWAD POSSESS.17
This possesses us of the most valuable blessing of human life, friendship. NWAD POSSESS.18
To possess one’s self of, to take or gain possession or command; to make one’s self master of. NWAD POSSESS.19
We possessed ourselves of the kingdom of Naples. NWAD POSSESS.20
To possess with, to furnish or fill with something permanent; or to be retained. NWAD POSSESS.21
It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention. NWAD POSSESS.22
If they are possessed with honest minds. NWAD POSSESS.23
If the possession is severed from the property; if A has the right of property, and B by unlawful means has gained possession, this is an injury to A. This is a bare or naked possession. NWAD POSSESSION.2
In bailment, the bailee, who receives goods to convey, or to keep for a time, has the possession of the goods, and a temporary right over them, but not the property. Property in possession, includes both the right and the occupation. Long undisturbed possession is presumptive proof of right or property in the possessor. NWAD POSSESSION.3
1. The thing possessed; land, estate or goods owned; as foreign possessions. NWAD POSSESSION.4
The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Obadiah 17. NWAD POSSESSION.5
When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matthew 19:22. NWAD POSSESSION.6
2. Any thing valuable possessed or enjoyed. Christian peace of mind is the best possession of life. NWAD POSSESSION.7
3. The state of being under the power of demons or invisible beings; madness; lunacy; as demoniacal possession. NWAD POSSESSION.8
Writ of possession, a precept directing a sheriff to put a person in peaceable possession of property recovered in ejectment. NWAD POSSESSION.9
To take possession, to enter on, or to bring within one’s power or occupancy. NWAD POSSESSION.10
To give possession, to put in another’s power or occupancy. NWAD POSSESSION.11
Possessive case, in English grammar, is the genitive case, or case of nouns and pronouns, which expresses, 1st, possession, ownership, as John’s book; or 2dly, some relation of one thing to another, as Homer’s admirers. NWAD POSSESSIVE.2
1. One that has, holds or enjoys any good or other thing. NWAD POSSESSOR.2
Think of the happiness of the prophets and apostles, saints and martyrs, possessors of eternal glory. NWAD POSSESSOR.3
Possessory action, in law, an action or suit in which the right of possession only, and not that of property, is contested. NWAD POSSESSORY.2
That may be or exist; that may be now, or may happen or come to pass; that may be done; not contrary to the nature of things. It is possible that the Greeks and Turks may now be engaged in battle. It is possible that peace of Europe may continue a century. It is not physically possible that a stream should ascend a mountain, but it is possible that the Supreme Being may suspend a law of nature, that is, his usual course of proceeding. It is not possible that 2 and 3 should be 7, or that the same action should be morally right and morally wrong. NWAD POSSIBLE.2
This word when pronounced with a certain emphasis, implies improbability. A thing is possible, but very improbable. NWAD POSSIBLE.3
Can we possibly his love desert? NWAD POSSIBLY.2
1. Perhaps; without absurdity. NWAD POSSIBLY.3
Arbitrary power tends to make a man a bad sovereign, who might possibly have been a good one, had he been invested with authority circumscribed by laws. NWAD POSSIBLY.4
1. A piece of timber set upright, usually larger than a stake, and intended to support something else; as the posts of a house; the posts of a door; the posts of a gate; the posts of a fence. NWAD POST.3
2. A military station; the place where a single soldier or a body of troops is stationed. The sentinel must not desert his post. The troops are ordered to defend the post. Hence, NWAD POST.4
3. The troops stationed in a particular place, or the ground they occupy. NWAD POST.5
4. A public office or employment, that is, a fixed place or station. NWAD POST.6
When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, NWAD POST.7
The post of honor is a private station. NWAD POST.8
5. A messenger or a carrier of letters and papers; one that goes at stated times to convey the mail or dispatches. This sense also denotes fixedness, either from the practice of using relays of horses stationed at particular places, or of stationing men for carrying dispatches, or from the fixed stages where they were to be supplied with refreshment. [See Stage.] Xenophon informs us the Cyrus, king of Persia, established such stations or houses. NWAD POST.9
6. A seat or situation. NWAD POST.10
7. A sort of writing paper, such as is used for letters; letter paper. NWAD POST.11
8. An old game at cards. NWAD POST.12
To ride post, to be employed to carry dispatches and papers, and as such carriers rode in haste, hence the phrase signifies to ride in haste, to pass with expedition. Post is used also adverbially, for swiftly, expeditiously, or expressly. NWAD POST.13
Sent from Media post to Egypt. NWAD POST.14
Hence, to travel post, is to travel expeditiously by the use of fresh horses taken at certain stations. NWAD POST.15
Knight of the post, a fellow suborned or hired to do a bad action. NWAD POST.16
And post o’er land and ocean without rest. NWAD POST.18
1. To expose to public reproach by fixing the name to a post; to expose to opprobrium by some public action; as, to post a coward. NWAD POST.20
2. To advertise on a post or in a public place; as, to post a stray horse. NWAD POST.21
3. To set; to place; to station; as, to post troops on a hill, or in front or on the flank of an army. NWAD POST.22
4. In book-keeping, to carry accounts from the waste-book or journal to the ledger. NWAD POST.23
To post off, to put off; to delay. [Not used.] NWAD POST.24
1. A portage. [Not used.] NWAD POSTAGE.2