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The Ottoman court; the government of the Turkish empire, officially called the Sublime Porte, from the gate (port) of the sultan's palace at which justice was administered.

r through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

Having gates. [Obs.] We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes. Chapman.

See Portague. [Obs.]

A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.

oreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay.

The act of foreshowing; foreboding. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign. Shak. My loss by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden.

Presaging; foreshadowing.

Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay.

or or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.

The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper.

See Portress.

A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.

See Porteass. [Obs.] Tyndale.

A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Same as Colporteur.

A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.

One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.