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A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.

the frame of the engine. (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

ed by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.

tion Sextans. Box sextant, a small sextant inclosed in a cylindrical case to make it more portable.

- Stationary engine. (a) A steam engine thet is permanently placed, in distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically: (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.

A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.

A portable set of steps.

sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue. Stovepipe hat, the common tall silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]

A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

A portable form of telethermometer, using a telephone in connection with a differential thermometer.

Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

The quality or state of being transportable.

Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things. [Colloq.]

bout, by equal alternating periods of service or duty; by turns. -- Turn bench, a simple portable lathe, used on a bench by clock makers and watchmakers. -- Turn buckle. See Turnbuckle, in Vocabulary. -- Turn cap, a sort of chimney cap which turns round with the wind so as to present its opening to the leeward. G. F…

Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title.

A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.

cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast. -- Yeast plant (Bot.), the vegetable organism, or fungus, of which beer yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, o…