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To exceed in sporting. [R.] "Not to outsport discretion." Shak.

vel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

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.

Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton.

Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.

One who transports.

That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.

So as to transport.

The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation. [R.]

To hire, as a ship, for the transportation of goods or freight.

On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." Beau. & Fl.

The first day of April, a day on which sportive impositions are practiced. The first of April, some do say, Is set apart for All Fools' Day. Poor Robin's Almanack (1760).

Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.

A pastoral sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade. Milton.

its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.