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e prompt and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

A sporting rifle for use at short ranges, employing a large charge of powder and a light (short) bullet, giving a high initial velocity and consequently a flat trajectory. It is usually of moderately large caliber.

all of a class who exhibit and cultivate any peculiar taste or fancy; hence, especially, sporting characters taken collectively, or any specific class of them, as jockeys, gamblers, prize fighters, etc. At a great book sale in London, which had congregated all the fancy. De Quincey.

Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are said to be active fomites.

ap. -- Forage master (Mil.), a person charged with providing forage and the means of transporting it. Farrow.

a bloom is converted into puddle bars. -- Forge wagon (Mil.), a wagon fitted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

To load with goods, as a ship, or vehicle of any kind, for transporting them from one place to another; to furnish with freight; as, to freight a ship; to freight a car.

A two-wheeled frame for transporting timber. [Prov. Eng.]

rm used as an interjection, Hark! listen.] Hudibras. Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! (Sporting), cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting. -- To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression. He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back…

A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg. [Slang, Eng.]

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

A little or young nymph. [Poetic] "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.

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

The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing. Blackstone.

A small inclosure or park for sporting. [Obs.]

A handicap. [Sporting Cant]

The act of carrying or transporting.

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

Rapturous; transporting.