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The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports.

A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.

Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.

stain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar supports a structure; an abutment supports an arch; the trunk of a tree supports the branches.

Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.

Support. [Obs.] Shak.

Maintenance; support. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bacon.

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.

Abounding with support. [Obs.] Chapman.

Having no support. Milton.

Support. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A female supporter. [R.] You are my gracious patroness and supportress. Massinger.

Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt.

The quality or state of being transportable.

Capable of being transported.

Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.

Transportation. [Obs.] "Give me swift transportance." Shak.