portelumiere (portlumiar")

[F., porterage portent (por-tent' or por'tent), n. [OF. por tente Sp. Pg. It. portento, My lo by dire portents the god foretold. Dryden. =Syn. Sign , Presage , etc. See omen , and foretell , v. t. portentiont (põr-ten's hon), n . [L. L. portend ere , pp. portent us , point out, portend: see portend .] The act of portending or foreshowing; a portent. Why, although the red comets do carry the portent ions of Mars, the brightly white should not be of the influence of Jupiter or Venus, is not absurd to doubt. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., vi. 14.