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Webster Dictionary :: Porous

PO'ROUS, a. [from pore.] Having interstices in the skin or substance of the body...

Webster Dictionary :: Porousness

PO'ROUSNESS, n. The quality of having pores, porosity; as the porousness of the ...

Webster Dictionary :: Porpess

POR'PESS, n. In zoology, a cetaceous fish of the genus Delphinus, whose back is ...

Webster Dictionary :: Porphyraceous

PORPHYRA'CEOUS, a. [See Porphyry .] Pertaining to porphyry; resembling porphyry....

Webster Dictionary :: Porphyritic

PORPHYRIT'IC POR'PHYRIZE, v.t. To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in...

Webster Dictionary :: Porphyry

POR'PHYRY, n. [Gr. purple; L. porphyrites.] A mineral consisting of a homogeneou...

Webster Dictionary :: Porphyry-shell

PORPHYRY-SHELL, n. An animal or shell of the genus Murex. It is of the snail kin...

Webster Dictionary :: Porpite

POR'PITE POR'PITES, n. The hair-button-stone, a small species of fossil coral of...

Webster Dictionary :: Porraceous

PORRA'CEOUS, a. [L. porraceus, from porrum, a leek or onion.] Greenish; resembli...

Webster Dictionary :: Porrection

PORREC'TION, n. [L. porrectio,porrigo; per or por; Eng. for, fore, and rego; to ...

Webster Dictionary :: Porret

POR'RET, n. [L. porrum.] A scallion; a leek or small onion.

Webster Dictionary :: Porridge

POR'RIDGE,n. [L. farrago, or from porrum, a leek.] A kind of food made by boilin...

Webster Dictionary :: Porridge-pot

POR'RIDGE-POT, n. The pot in which flesh, or flesh and vegetables are boiled for...

Webster Dictionary :: Porringer

POR'RINGER, n. 1. A small metal vessel in which children eat porridge or milk, o...

Webster Dictionary :: Port

PORT, n. [L. portus, porto, to carry; L. fero; Eng. to bear.] 1. A harbor; a hav...

Webster Dictionary :: Port-bar

PORT-BAR, n. A bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale of wind. Port-charges...

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