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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.

Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, -- the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases.

Usually Press work. The work of a press agent. [Chiefly Theat. Cant]

Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform…

To write prose. Prosing or versing, but chiefly this latter. Milton.

lly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually expensive endowed schools which give a liberal modern education or prepare pupils for the universities. Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Winchester are of this c…

thered in the Hawaiian Islands from the young fronds of free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

nds or more, and are very strong, being able to crack cocoanuts with the large claw. They chiefly inhabit the tropical islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, living in holes and feeding upon fruit. Called also palm crab. -- Purse net, a fishing net, the mouth of which may be closed or drawn together like a purse. M…

A mineral, usually of a white or greenish color and pearly luster, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of alumina.

A mineral, usually of a pale brown or of a gray or grayish green color, consisting chiefly of the hydrous silicate of iron and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe.

Containing pyroxene; composed chiefly of pyroxene.

rant. See Gunter's quadrant, in the Vocabulary. Hadley's quadrant, a hand instrument used chiefly at sea to measure the altitude of the sun or other celestial body in ascertaining the vessel's position. It consists of a frame in the form of an octant having a graduated scale upon its arc, and an index arm, or alidade p…

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.

e, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [Written also quipo.] Tylor. The mysterious science of the quipus . . . supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one…

A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. Chaucer.

The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff.

ble to range, or rove about, for considerable distances; apt or suited for much roving, --chiefly used of cattle.