Definition of port

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Port (n.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening..

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Pluripartite :: Pluripartite (a.) Deeply divided into several portions.
Undue :: Undue (a.) Not agreeable to a rule or standard, or to duty; disproportioned; excessive; immoderate; inordinate; as, an undue attachment to forms; an undue rigor in the execution of law..
Sunned :: Sun (n.) That which resembles the sun, as in splendor or importance; any source of light, warmth, or animation..
Phrase :: Phrase (n.) A brief expression, sometimes a single word, but usually two or more words forming an expression by themselves, or being a portion of a sentence; as, an adverbial phrase..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
Particle :: Particle (n.) Any very small portion or part; the smallest portion; as, he has not a particle of patriotism or virtue..
Tall :: Tall (superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast..
Materialism :: Materialism (n.) The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
Seraphine :: Seraphine (n.) A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument..
Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..
Overproportion :: Overproportion (v. t.) To make of too great proportion.
Apporter :: Apporter (n.) A bringer in; an importer.
Buzz :: Buzz (n.) A whisper; a report spread secretly or cautiously.
Share :: Share (v.) Especially, the part allotted or belonging to one, of any property or interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend..
Fell :: Fell (n.) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes, when the ore is sorted by sifting..
Fulminate :: Fulminate (v. i.) To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report..
Cauliculus :: Cauliculus (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian..
Heterology :: Heterology (n.) The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology..
Desport :: Desport (v. t. & i.) See Disport.
Paranymph :: Paranymph (n.) An ally; a supporter or abettor.
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