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A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal. Portuguese man-of-war. (Zoöl.) See Physalia.

A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors.

A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir.

A kind of large ship formerly used by the Spaniards and Portuguese in the East India trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden.

A Portuguese coin. See Crusado.

An old Portuguese coin, worth about seventy cents. [Written also cruade.] Shak.

A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

ess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.

A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears;- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.

me, hold the prey in position, attached to the tentacles. Some of the jellyfishes, as the Portuguese man-of-war, and Cyanea, are able to penetrate the human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also nettling cell, cnida, cnidocell.

k (Zoöl.), the frigate bird. -- Man-of-war's man, a sailor serving in a ship of war. -- Portuguese man-of-war (Zoöl.), any species of the genus Physalia. See Physalia.

A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

ike the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ñ; in Portuguese, lh and nh.

In India (from the Portuguese), any Christian minister; also, a priest of the native region. Kipling.

A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war.

ication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson's Cyc. -- Pigeon grass (Bot.), a kind of foxtail grass (Setaria glauca), of some value as fodder. The seeds are eagerly eaten by pigeons and other birds. -- Pigeon hawk. (Zoöl.) (a) A small A…

A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.] Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. Marlowe.

Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese. [Obs.] -- n.

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent. [Spelt also ree.]