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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.

See Portass. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A colonnade or covered ambulatory, especially in classical styles of architecture; usually, a colonnade at the entrance of a building.

Furnished with a portico.

A curtain hanging across a doorway.

See Portague. Beau. & Fl.

Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese. [Obs.] -- n.

ually cut off or separated from the whole. These are parts of his ways; but how little a portion is heard of him! Job xxvi. 14. Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. Tennyson.

One who portions.

A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

Having no portion.

See Portass. [Obs.]

A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.