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See Legislature, Portugal.

A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

To take from a cradle. [R.] This airy apparition first discradled From Tournay into Portugal. Ford.

To crowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

In Portugal and Brazil, the title given to a member of the higher classes.

and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.

The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.

The solicitor in Spain and Portugal; the attorney-general.

o make the motion of grasping; to clutch; to struggle; to strive. As one that grasped And tugged for life and was by strength subdued. Shak. To grasp at, to catch at; to try to seize; as, Alexander grasped at universal empire,

A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

stablished by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.

A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.

hold the prey in position, attached to the tentacles. Some of the jellyfishes, as the Portuguese man-of-war, and Cyanea, are able to penetrate the human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also nettling cell, cnida, cnidocell.

- Ground laurel, trailing arbutus. -- New Zealand laurel, Laurelia Novæ Zelandiæ. -- Portugal laurel, the Prunus Lusitanica. -- Rose laurel, the oleander. See Oleander. -- Sheep laurel, a poisonous shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and redder flowers. -- Spurge laurel,…

roduced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

The lotus of the lotuseaters, probably a tree found in Northern Africa, Sicily, Portugal, and Spain (Zizyphus Lotus), the fruit of which is mildly sweet. It was fabled by the ancients to make strangers who ate of it forget their native country, or lose all desire to return to it.

Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n.