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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.
pl.
of Porta
n.
A sheath; a theca; as, the vagina of the portal vein.
n.
The quality or state of being portable; portability.
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.
n.
Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved pieces fitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimney flue.
n. pl.
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
a.
Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
n.
The quality or state of being portable; fitness to be carried.
n.
A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
n.
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.
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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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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Both renal and portal. See Portal.
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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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Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.
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Portable.
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See Portass.
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of Vena
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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.
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