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In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.

The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

The act or process of dividing out proportionally.

Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak.

Without purport or meaning.

Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the sh…

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

A name given to several species of the composite genus Senecio.

Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord. 'T is obvious what rapport there is between the conceptions and languages in every country. Sir W. Temple. En` rap`port" ( Etym: [F.], in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympat…

Same as Rattlebox.

To apportion again.

A second or a new apportionment.

To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. Bacon. Gan her recomfort from so sad affright. Spenser.

Without comfort. [Obs.]

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

To recomfort; to comfort. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.

To export again, as what has been imported.

The act of reëxporting, or of exporting an import. A. Smith.