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The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus.

The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.

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

The quality or state of being portable; portability.

See Portass. [Obs.]

A sailor's wages when in port.

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

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

or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing. Thick with sparkling orient gems The portal shone. Milton. From out the fiery portal of the east. Shak.

In singing, or in the use of the bow, a gradual carrying or lifting of the voice or sound very smoothly from one note to another; a gliding from tone to tone.

See Port, carriage, demeanor. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.

A breviary; a prayer book. [Written variously portace, portasse, portesse, portise, porthose, portos, portus, portuse, etc.] [Obs.] Spenser. Camden. By God and by this porthors I you swear. Chaucer.

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

Portable. [Obs.]

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., by colporteurs.

Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

Behavior; comport. [Obs.] Goodly comportance each to other bear. Spenser.

A bringing together. [Obs.] Bp. Richardson.

The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation. In their deportations, they had often the favor of their conquerors. Atterbury.