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Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. [R.] "Sportal arms." Dryden.

Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.

Support. [Obs.] Shak.

Maintenance; support. [Obs.] Chaucer. Bacon.

The quality or state of being transportable.

Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.

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.

rriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton.

Want of importance; triviality. Johnson.

Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.

A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit. "Men of account." Pope. "To turn to account." Shak. Account current, a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account. -- In account with, in a relation requiring an account to be kept. -- On account of, for t…

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

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

(Engraulis encrasicholus), caught in vast numbers in the Mediterranean, and pickled for exportation. The name is also applied to several allied species.

A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johns…

A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.