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The long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla); -- called also ipi.

The pilot's skill or knowledge, as of coasts, rocks, bars, and channels. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

are to designate plants in general, or anything that is planted. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon. Shak. (Troil. iii. sc. 2).

A duty or tax paid for repairing bridges. Ayliffe.

A sailor's wages when in port.

A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

nd one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.] Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. Marlowe.

w to be paid for the conveyance of a letter or other mailable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

See Pottage.

A porringer. [Obs.] Grew.

See Potargo.

r meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge. [Written also potage.] Chaucer. Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils. Gen. xxv. 34.

A nitrogenous phosphorized principle found in brain tissue. By decomposition it yields neurine, fatty acids, and other bodies.

ho takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like. Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great of modern poetry. De Quincey.

Prostitution or fornication on the part of a woman.

Quietness. [Obs.] Spenser.

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.

Rent. [Obs.]

SAme as Report. [Obs.]

Stagnant; motionless. [Obs.] Boyle.