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One transported for a crime. [Slang, Eng.]

Transportation; conveyance. [Obs.]

n wedlock. The doctrine of Divine Right, which has now come back to us, like a thief from transportation, under the alias of Legitimacy. Macaulay.

To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs. [U.S.]

The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.

process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

aucuparia, or rowan tree. -- Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. -- Mountain beaver (Zoöl.), the sewellel. -- Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite. -- Mountain cat (Zoöl.), the catamount. See Catamount. -- Mounta…

our great right. Chaucer's Dream. Those on whom Christ bestowed miraculous cures were so transported that their gratitude made them, notwithstanding his prohibition, proclaim the wonders he had done. Dr. H. More.

The action produced by this tendency. Electric osmose, or Electric endosmose (Elec.), the transportation of a liquid through a porous septum by the action of an electric current.

Excessive joy; transport.

The offense of transporting wool or sheep out of England contrary to the statute formerly existing. Blackstone.

To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as, to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater.

A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.

A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

mmitting them. -- Penal servitude, imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. [Great Brit.] -- Penal suit, Penal action (Law), a suit for penalties.

Transportation, as of petroleum oil, by means of a pipe conduit; also, the charge for such transportation.

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

Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine. South.

The act of carrying or transporting.