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To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.] They are easily ported by boat into other shires. Fuller.

To carry (goods, boats, etc.) overland between navigable waters.

To adorn with pictures. [R.] Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. Milton.

A long boat hook by which barges are propelled against the stream. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A flat-bottomed boat or lighter, -- used in Holland and the Baltic, and sometimes armed in case of war. [Written also pram, and prame.]

To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board. Sir I. Newton. The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron. Sandys.

That of which one is proud; that which excites boasting or self- gratulation; the occasion or ground of self-esteem, or of arrogant and presumptuous confidence, as beauty, ornament, noble character, children, etc. Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride. Spenser. I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. Zech. ix. 6.…

Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing cra…

A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. Propeller wheel,the screw, usually having two or more blades, used in propelling a vessel.

on." Shak. Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden.

In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.

A quantity of rope-yarn, or the like, placed, as a fender, on the bow of a boat.

Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called deafening.

A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.

A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

officer in the navy who had charge of the provisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now called paymaster.

t off a counterfeit note, or an ingenious theory. (e) To push from land; as, to put off a boat. -- To put on or upon. (a) To invest one's self with, as clothes; to assume. "Mercury . . . put on the shape of a man." L'Estrange. (b) To impute (something) to; to charge upon; as, to put blame on or upon another. (c) To ad…

An ancient English fishing boat.

e genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidæ. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.

To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast. " To quack of universal cures." Hudibras.