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ComportingComport Com*port", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Comported; p. pr. &
vb. n. Comporting.] [F. comporter, LL. comportare, fr.L.
comportare to bring together; com- + portare to carry. See
Port demeanor.]
1. To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with
an injury. [Obs.] --Barrow.
2. To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by
with.
How ill this dullness doth comport with greatness.
--Beau. & Fl.
How their behavior herein comported with the
institution. --Locke. ExportingExport Ex*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exported; p. pr. & vb.
n. Exporting.] [L. exportare, exportatum; ex out+portare to
carry : cf. F. exporter. See Port demeanor.]
1. To carry away; to remove. [Obs.]
[They] export honor from a man, and make him a
return in envy. --Bacon.
2. To carry or send abroad, or out of a country, especially
to foreign countries, as merchandise or commodities in the
way of commerce; -- the opposite of import; as, to export
grain, cotton, cattle, goods, etc. ImportingImport Im*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imported; p. pr. & vb.
n. Importing.] [L. importare to bring in, to occasion, to
cause; pref. im- in + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through
F. importer, from the Latin. See Port demeanor.]
1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without;
especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place
or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of
commerce; -- opposed to export. We import teas from China,
coffee from Brasil, etc.
2. To carry or include, as meaning or intention; to imply; to
signify.
Every petition . . . doth . . . always import a
multitude of speakers together. --Hooker.
3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing
on; to concern.
I have a motion much imports your good. --Shak.
If I endure it, what imports it you? --Dryden.
Syn: To denote; mean; sighify; imply; indicate; betoken;
interest; concern. Importing
Importing Im*port"ing, a.
Full of meaning. [Obs.] --Shak.
Nonimporting
Nonimporting Non`im*port"ing, a.
Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.
PortingPort Port, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Porting.] [F. porter, L. portare to carry. See Port
demeanor.]
1. To carry; to bear; to transport. [Obs.]
They are easily ported by boat into other shires.
--Fuller.
2. (Mil.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body,
with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small
of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing
the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms.
Began to hem him round with ported spears. --Milton.
Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as
above. Portingal
Portingal Por"tin*gal, a.
Of or pertaining to Portugal; Portuguese. [Obs.] -- n. A
Portuguese. [Obs.]
PurportingPurport Pur"port, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Purported; p. pr. &
vb. n. Purporting.] [OF. purporter, pourporter. See
Purport, n.]
To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import;
-- often with an object clause or infinitive.
They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter
which little purported. --Rowe. Reportingly
Reportingly Re*port"ing*ly, adv.
By report or common fame.
SportingSport Sport, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun
their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton.
2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.' --Tillotson.
4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) To assume suddenly a new and different
character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
See Sport, n., 6. --Darwin.
Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton. SportingSporting Sport"ing, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin. Sporting bookSporting Sport"ing, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin. Sporting houseSporting Sport"ing, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin. Sporting manSporting Sport"ing, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin. Sporting plantSporting Sport"ing, a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts;
exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that
which, sports.
Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling
operations, and the like. --C. Kingsley.
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers,
and the like.
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse
racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or
offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very
different, character from that of the rest of the plant.
--Darwin. Sportingly
Sportingly Sport"ing*ly, adv.
In sport; sportively.
The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but
sportingly. --Hammond.
TransportingTransport Trans*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p.
pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [F. transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port
bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
--Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of
passion. --Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South. Transporting
Transporting Trans*port"ing, a.
That transports; fig., ravishing.
Your transporting chords ring out. --Keble.
Transportingly
Transportingly Trans*port"ing*ly, adv.
So as to transport.
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