porcupine like rodents

pl. Zoology: Hystricomorph a, a section of Rodent i a Simplicidentata, with six families: Octodontide, Hystricide, Chinch ill ide, Dasyproctide, Dinomy. ide, and Caviidæ. porcupine sea-mouse, s . [APHRODITA.) porcupine-wood, s. The outer portion of the trunk of the cocoa-nut palm, a hard, durable wood, which, when cut horizontally, shows beautiful markings resembling those of porcupine quills. *por'-cu-pine, v . t . [PORCUPINE, 8.] To cause to stand up like the quills of a porcupine. "Whose frightful presence porcupined each hair." Wolcot: Peter Pindar , p. 50. pör'-cŭs, s. (Lat.] [PORK.] Zool.: A synonym of Babyrou a (q. v.). pöre, *poore, s . [French pore , from Lat. porum , acc us. of por us a pore, from Gr. poros =a pa age, a pore; Sp., Port., & Ital. poro .] 1. Anat. (pl.): Minute holes in the skin required for perspiration. "The sweate came gushing out of every pore." Chapman: Homer's Ody ey, xi. IMG:content-1343.png:[blocks in formation] [STOMATES.] pör-işm, *por-risme, subst . [Gr. porism a =any. thing procured or supplied, something deduced from a previous demonstration; porizō =to bring, to supply; poros =a pa age; Fr. porisme .] Geometry: 1. A corollary. 2. A name given by the ancient geometers to a cla of propositions having for their object to find the conditions that will render certain problems indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. It partakes of the nature both of a problem and of a theorem, without being exactly either. pör-iş-mat-ic, pör-Is-măt'-Ic-al, adj . [Greek porism a (gen it. porismatos )=porism (q. v...] Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.