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porcelain-cement (pôrs'lān-sē-ment"), n. Ace An obsolete form of purslane ment, variously constituted, for mending china ware or gla ware. porcelain-clay (pôrs'lān-klā), n. Kaolin. porcelain-color (pôrs'lān-kul"or), n. A pig IMG:content-0659.png:[blocks in formation] [ porcelane, porcellane (pôr ́se-lān), a. porcelain ( por cell an ).] Same as por cel a no us. porcelaneous (pôr-se-lā'nē-us), a. [ pearance. por cel a no us, porcellanous (pôr'se-lā-nus), a. [ Por cell an a (pôr-se-lāʼnä), n. [NL., And in a porche , bilt of square stones Full mightily enarched enuiron, Where the domes and ples [pleas] of the town Were executed, and lawes of the king. Lydgate , Story of Thebes, ii. Repair to Pompey's porch , where you shall find us. Shak ., J. C., i. 3. 147. 3. A veranda. [Local, U. S.] -4. Figurative the beginning or entrance. ly, Cet . No age was spared, no sex. Cat . Nay, no degree. Cet. Not infants in the porch of life were free. B. Jonson , Cat i line, i. 1. Solomon's Porch, a porch connected with and forming a part of Herod's Temple at Jerusalem, minutely described by Joseph us. The Porch, the Stoa Pæcile, one of the public porticos on the agora of ancient Athens, whither the Stoic philosopher Zeno resorted with his disciples. It was called the Painted Porch , from the pictures of Polygnotus and other eminent painters with which it was adorned. Hence, the Porch is equivalent to the school of the Stoics. porcine (pôr's in), a . [= F. porcine = Sp. Pg. It. porcino , porcinus , of a hog, porcus , hog: see pork .] 1. In zoöl . , resembling or related to swine; suilline: as, porcine characters or affinities.-2. Swinish; hoggish; piggish: applied to persons in derision or contempt. His large porcine cheeks, round, twinkling eyes, and thumbs habitually twirling, expre ed a concentrated effort not to get into trouble. George Eliot , Felix Holt, xx. porcupigt (pôr'kū-pig), n . Same as porcupine . You would have thought him for to be Some Egyptian porcupig . Dragon of Wantley , 1. 84. ( Percy's Reliques .) n. Same as porcupine . Holyoke . [ porkepуп , [ por cell an a ceo us (pôr se-la-na shius), a. porcelain ( por cell an ) + -aceous.] Same as por cel a no us.