Word Meanings - PORTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A female porter. Milton.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• PORTERESS
  See PORTRESS
• PORTERHOUSE
  A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
• FEMALE FERN
  a common species of fern with large decompound fronds , growing in many countries; lady fern. Note: The names male fern and female fern were anciently given to two common ferns; but it is now understood that neither has any sexual character. Syn.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PORTERAGE
  1. The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper. 2. Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.
• PORTER
  A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.
• FEMALE RHYMES
  double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line. Note: A rhyme, in which the final syllables only agree
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• SPORTER
  One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• APPORTER
  A bringer in; an importer. Sir M. Hale.
• SUPPORTER
  A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
• REPORTER
  One who reports. Specifically: An officer or person who makees authorized statements of law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates. One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of
• IMPORTER
  One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.
• EXPORTER
  One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to importer.
• COLPORTER
  See COLPORTEUR