Warner, Albions England

27. These two gallions are laden for the king, neither doe they carie any particular mans goods, sauing the portage of the Mariners and souldiers. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 228. 3t. Tonnage; burden of a ve el. Their shippe, ships, barke, pin ne es, and all other ve els, of whatsoeuer portage , bulke, quantitie, or qualitie they may be. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 271. 4. The price paid for carriage; freight-charges. -5. A break in a chain of water-communica tion over which goods, boats, etc., have to be carried, as from one lake, river, or canal to another, or along the banks of rivers round waterfalls, rapids, or the like; a carry. A rumor was spread through the intrenched camp. that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the portage . J. F. Cooper , Last of Mohicans, i. Expeditions of the gravest magnitude have not infrequently depended for their succe upon the pa age of portages from stream to stream, or from sea to sea. IMG:content-0673.jpg:[blocks in formation] port all (portal), n . [ portal , F. portail = troduced, but readily pa es into a vulgar mannerism. Sp. Pg.portal = D.portaal G.Sw. Dan. portal , The The term is sometimes loosely applied to legato effects on portale , entrance, vestibule, portal, neut. of portal is , pertaining to a gate (see portal2 ), porta , a gate, door: see port2 .] 1. A door or gate; an entrance or opening ng for pa age; Portal.-West front of Peter borough Cathedral, England. specifically, the entire architectural treatment of the entrance and its surroundings of a great or splendid building, as a cathedral. The port all postes and threshold vp are throwen and doores of halles. Trills, graces, and a good portamento or direction of voice. Della Valle , tr. in Burney's Hist. Music, IV. 40. port an cet (portans), n. [ -ance .] Carriage; port; demeanor; air; mien. A woman of great worth, And by her stately portance borne of heavenly birth. Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 21. IMG:content-0674.jpg:[graphic] Through what a grace portant (portant), a. And goodly countenance the rascal speaks! What a grave portance ! Tomkis (?), Albumazar, iv. 2. [ portant , ppr. of porter , carry: see port3 .] In her ., same as portate .-Cro double portant. Same as cro doublé (which see, under cro 1 ). Port Arthur plum. See plum1. porta t (põr'tas), n. [Early mod IMG:content-0675.jpg:[ocr errors] [Early mod. E. also por ta e, portase, portace , port us , porte e , portise , port at, portuas, portuous , portuis, pertuse, por teus , portos , por those , portas , portos , porthos, port us, portous, poortos, porthous, prop. porthors, portiforium ), a breviary, porter , carry (see port3 ), + hors, fors, outside, out, fores , doors: see door .] A breviary; a prayer-book. Also called portuary . On my porthors I make an oath. Chaucer , Shipman's Tale, L. 130. An old priest always read in his porta mumpsimus domine for sumpsimus. Camden . Almost nothing remain eth in them simple and vncorrupt, as in the usuall port us woont to be read for dailie seruice is manifest and euident to be seene. IMG:content-0676.jpg:[blocks in formation] King Richard doth himself appear, As doth the blushing discontented sun From out the fiery portal of the east. tare, carry: see port3.] In her., in a position as if being carried. See cro portate, under cro 1. The lips that open to this fruit's a portal To let in death, and make immortal mortal. Quarles, Emblems, i. 1. She... gazed through the dusty side-lights of the por tal at the young, blooming, and very cheerful face which presented itself for admittance into the gloomy old mansion. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, iv. On the ground-story of the central compartment [of a transept] there is a great portal , while the aisle ends usually have windows instead of doors. C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 102. 2t. A square corner of a room separated from the rest by a wainscot, and forming a short pa age or vestibule.