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r through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

Having gates. [Obs.] We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman.

See Portague. [Obs.]

A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.

oreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.

Presaging; foreshadowing.

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

or or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

See Portress.

A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.

See Porteass. [Obs.] Tyndale.

A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

A portable case for holding loose papers, prints, drawings, etc.

A sword bearer. [Obs.]

In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. [Obs.] Fabyan.

An embrasure in a ship's side. See 3d Port.

One of the iron hooks to which the port hinges are attached. J. Knowles.