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n.
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
n.
See Portass.
a.
Both renal and portal. See Portal.
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Portable.
n.
The quality or state of being portable; portability.
pl.
of Porta
v. t.
A room or apartment where clothes are kept, or wearing apparel is stored; a portable closet for hanging up clothes.
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Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
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Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
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A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
n.
By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
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Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
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The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
n. pl.
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
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A portable chair or covered vehicle for carrying a single person, -- usually borne on poles by two men. Called also sedan chair.
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Capable of holding up or carrying; as, the portative force of a magnet, of atmospheric pressure, or of capillarity.
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A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
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A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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of Vena
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Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
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