Porphyry

pui'tir-i, n. a very hard, variegated ruck, of a purple and white colour, used in sculpture, (’Jhrough Fr. and from Or. porphvntes porphyra purple. Cf. Purple.] Porpoise, pnr'pus, Porpe , poripes, n a gregarimi' kind of wh.de, from 4 to 8 feet long, caught for its oil and flesh, [Lit ‘the hog-fish,’ O. — Fr. porpeis parcus, a hog, and piscis, a fish, from us hog-hke appearance m the water.]