porthmeus

[Gr. porthmeus =a ferryman.] Ichthy.: A genus erected for the reception of fishes, since discovered to be the young of Chorine mus. pör-ti-cō, s . [Ital., from Lat. porticum , acc us. of porticus =a porch (q. v.).] Arch.: A covered walk, supported by columns, and usually vaulted; a piazza or arched walk; a porch before the en IMG:content-1360.png:[graphic][merged small] pör-cul-lis, *port-col-ise, *port-cul-lise, s . [O. Fr. porte coleice , later porte couli e , from porte pört-er (1), *port-our, s. [Fr. porteur , from hexastyle, octostyle, IMG:content-1361.png:[blocks in formation] or decastyle, ac. cording as they have four, six, eight, or ten columns in front. A prostyle portico is one projecting in front of the building; a portico in antis is one receding within the building. ""Tis folly all-let me no more be told the axis of a heavy forging, whereby it is guided beneath the hammer or into the furnace, being sus- pended by chains from a crane above. A cro and roofs of gold." Cowper: The Nativity. pör'-ti-cõed, adj. Portico. the forging beneath the hammer. (2) A smaller bar from whose end an article is forged, as a knife-blade, for instance. 2. Eng . Law : An officer who carries a white or silver rod before the justice in eyre. 3. Weaving : A weaver's term in Scotland for twenty splits in plain work.