purport

[O. Fr. pour port.] [PURPORT, v." *1. Disguise. (Spenser: F. Q., III. i. 52.) 2. Meaning, tenor, import; intended signification, drift. "A book so piteous in purport." Shakesp.: Hamlet, ii. 1. pür-pört, v . t. & i. [O. Fr. pur porter , pour porter =to intend, from pur (Fr. pour )=Lat.pro=according to, and porter =to carry.] with white-lead, are of a purple color. It is very convey, as a meaning or import intend A. Trans.: Τo import, to signify, to mean; to transparent and powerful, glazes and dries well in oil, and is a durable and eligible pigment, belonging perhaps to the semi-neutral cla of marone.