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Populism (?), n. (U. S. Politics) The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.
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Populist (?), n. [L. populus people + -ist.] (U. S. Politics) A member of the People's party. -- Populistic (#), a.
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Populosity (?), n. [L. populositas: cf. F. populosité.] Populousness.[Obs.]
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Populous (?), a. [L. populosus, fr. populus people: cf. F. populeux.] 1. Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
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Heaven, yet populous, retains
Number sufficient to possess her realms. Milton.
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2. Popular; famous. [Obs.] J. Webster.
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3. Common; vulgar. [Obs.] Arden of Feversham.
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4. Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] “The dust . . . raised by your populous troops.” Shak.
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-- Populously, adv. -- Populousness, n.
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Poraille (?), n. [OF. pouraille. See .] Poor people; the poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Porbeagle (?), n. (Zoöl.) A species of shark (Lamna cornubica), about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark. [Written also probeagle.]
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Porcate (?), a. [L. porca a ridge between two furrows.] (Zoöl.) Having grooves or furrows broader than the intervening ridges; furrowed.
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Porcelain (?), n. (Bot.) Purslain. [Obs.]
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Porcelain (277), n. [F. porcelaine, It. porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell (Cypræa porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig, probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was believed to be made from it. See .] A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.
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Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. Dryden.
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Coloq. Ivory porcelain , porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See . -- Coloq. Porcelain clay . See under . -- Coloq. Porcelain crab (Zoöl.), any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. -- Coloq. Porcelain jasper . (Min.) See . -- Coloq. Porcelain printing , the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. -- Coloq. Porcelain shell (Zoöl.), a cowry.
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Porcelainized (?), a. (Geol.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.
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{ Porcelaneous (?), Porcellaneous (?), } a. 1. Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells.
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2. (Zoöl.) Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; -- said of certain Foraminifera.
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Porcelanite (?), n. [Cf. F. porcelanite.] (Min.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.
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{ Porcelanous (?), Porcellanous (?), } a. Porcelaneous. Ure.
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Porch (?), n. [F. porche, L. porticus, fr. porta a gate, entrance, or passage. See a gate, and cf. .] 1. (Arch.) A covered and inclosed entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. Sometimes the porch is large enough to serve as a covered walk. See also Carriage porch, under , and .
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The graceless Helen in the porch I spied
Of Vesta's temple. Dryden.
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2. A portico; a covered walk. [Obs.]
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Repair to Pompey's porch, where you shall find find us. Shak.
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Coloq. The Porch , a public portico, or great hall, in Athens, where Zeno, the philosopher, taught his disciples; hence, sometimes used as equivalent to the school of the Stoics. It was called h poikilh stoa. [See .]
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Porcine (?), a. [L. porcinus, from porcus a swine. See .] Of or pertaining to swine; characteristic of the hog. “Porcine cheeks.” G. Eliot.
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Porcupine (?), n. [OE. porkepyn, porpentine, OF. porc-espi, F. porc-épic (cf. It. porco spino, porco spinoso, Sp. puerco espino, puerco espin, fr. L. porcus swine + spina thorn, spine). The last part of the French word is perhaps a corruption from the It. or Sp.; cf. F. épi ear, a spike of grain, L. spica. See , a large nail, .] 1. (Zoöl.) Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.
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2. (Zoöl.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species.
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Coloq. Porcupine ant-eater (Zoöl.), the echidna. -- Coloq. Porcupine crab (Zoöl.), a large spiny Japanese crab (Acantholithodes hystrix). -- Coloq. Porcupine disease (Med.). See . -- Coloq. Porcupine fish (Zoöl.), any plectognath fish having the body covered with spines which become erect when the body is inflated. See , and . -- Coloq. Porcupine grass (Bot.), a grass (Stipa spartea) with grains bearing a stout twisted awn, which, by coiling and uncoiling through changes in moisture, propels the sharp-pointed and barbellate grain into the wool and flesh of sheep. It is found from Illinois westward. See Illustration in Appendix. -- Coloq. Porcupine wood (Bot.), the hard outer wood of the cocoa palm; -- so called because, when cut horizontally, the markings of the wood resemble the quills of a porcupine.
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Pore (?), n. [F., fr. L. porus, Gr. � a passage, a pore. See , v.] 1. One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.
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2. A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.
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Pore, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Pored (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Poring.] [OE. poren, of uncertain origin; cf. D. porren to poke, thrust, Gael. purr.] To look or gaze steadily in reading or studying; to fix the attention; to be absorbed; -- often with on or upon, and now usually with over.“Painfully to pore upon a book.” Shak.
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The eye grows weary with poring perpetually on the same thing. Dryden.
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Poreblind (?), a. [Probably influenced by pore, v. See .] Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Porer (?), n. One who pores.
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Porgy (?), n.; pl. Porgies (#). [See .] 1. (Zoöl.) (a) The scup. (b) The sailor's choice, or pinfish. (c) The margate fish. (d) The spadefish. (e) Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]
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2. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous sparoid food fishes, as the jolthead porgy, the sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna) of the West Indies, the grass porgy (Calamus arctifrons) of Florida, and the red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) of Europe.
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Porifera (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. porus pore + ferre to bear.] (Zoöl.) A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiæ, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiæ, Keratosa or Fibrospongiæ, and Silicea.
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Poriferan (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Polifera.
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Poriferata (?), n. pl. [NL.] The Polifera.
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Poriform (?), a. [L. porus pore + -form: cf. F. poriforme.] Resembling a pore, or small puncture.
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Porime (?), n. [Gr. � practicable.] (Math.) A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident. [R.] Crabb.
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Poriness (?), n. Porosity. Wiseman.
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Porism (?), n. [Gr. � a thing procured, a deduction from a demonstration, fr. � to bring, provide: cf. F. porisme.] 1. (Geom.) A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions. Playfair.
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2. (Gr. Geom.) A corollary. Brande & C.
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☞ Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have been made by modern geometers.
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{ Porismatic (?), Porismatical (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
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{ Poristic (?), Poristical (?), } a. [Gr. � for providing, � provided.] Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.
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Porite (?), n. [Cf. F. porite. See , n.] (Zoöl.) Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidæ.
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Porites (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. poros a pore.] (Zoöl.) An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
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Pork (?), n. [F. porc, L. porcus hog, pig. See a litter of pigs, and cf. , .] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
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Porker (?), n. A hog. Pope.
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Porket (?), n. [Dim. of F. porc. See .] A young hog; a pig. [R.] Dryden. W. Howitt.
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Porkling (?), n. A pig; a porket. Tusser.
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Porkwood (?), n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
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Pornerastic (?), a. [Gr. � harlot + � to love.] Lascivious; licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.
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Pornographic (?), a. Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
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Pornography (?), n. [Gr. � a harlot + -graphy.] 1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
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2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
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3. obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures, videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual arousal and having little or no artistic merit; also, the content of such materials.
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Porosity (?), n. [Cf. F. porosité.] The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
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Porotic (?), n. [Gr. � callus.] (Med.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
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Porotype (?), n. [See , n., and .] A copy of a print, writing, etc., made by placing it upon a chemically prepared paper which is acted upon by a gas which permeates the paper of the print, writing, etc.
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Porous (?), a. [Cf. F. poreux. See , n.] Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. “The veins of porous earth.” Milton.
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Porously, adv. In a porous manner.
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Porousness, n. 1. The quality of being porous.
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2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. [R.]
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They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby.
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Porpentine (?), n. Porcupine. [Obs.] Shak.
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Porpesse (?), n. A porpoise. [Obs.]
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Porphyraceous (?), a. Porphyritic.
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Porphyre (?), n. Porphyry. [Obs.] Locke.
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Porphyrite (?), n. (Min.) A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
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Porphyritic (?), a. [Cf. F. porphyritique.] (Min.) Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
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Porphyrization (?), n. The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
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Porphyrize (?), v. t. [Cf. F. porphyriser, Gr. � to purplish.] To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
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Porphyrogenitism (?), n. [LL. porphyro genitus, fr. Gr. �; � purple + root of gignesqai to be born.] The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.
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Porphyry (?), n.; pl. Porphyries (#). [F. porphyre, L. porphyrites, fr. Gr. � like purple, fr. � purple. See .] (Geol.) A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.
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Coloq. Porphyry shell (Zoöl.), a handsome marine gastropod shell (Oliva porphyria), having a dark red or brown polished surface, marked with light spots, like porphyry.
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Porpita (?), n. [NL., from Gr. � brooch.] (Zoöl.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
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Porpoise (?), n. [OE. porpeys, OF. porpeis, literally, hog fish, from L. porcus swine + piscis fish. See , and .] 1. (Zoöl.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocæna, especially Phocæna communis, or Phocæna phocæna, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (Phocæna Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer.
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2. (Zoöl.) A true dolphin (Delphinus); -- often so called by sailors.
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Coloq. Skunk porpoise , or Coloq. Bay porpoise (Zoöl.), a North American porpoise (Lagenorhynchus acutus), larger than the common species, and with broad stripes of white and yellow on the sides. See Illustration in Appendix.
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Porporino (?), n. [It.] A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediæval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold. Fairholt.
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Porpus (?), n. A porpoise. [Obs.] Swift.
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Porraceous (?), a. [L. porraceus, from porrum, porrus, a leek.] Resembling the leek in color; greenish. [R.] “Porraceous vomiting.” Wiseman.
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Porrect (?), a. [L. porrectus, p. p. of porrigere to stretch out before one's self, to but forth.] Extended horizontally; stretched out.
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Porrection (?), n. [L. porrectio: cf. F. porrection.] The act of stretching forth.
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Porret (?), n. [F. porrette, fr. L. porrum, porrus, leek. See .] A scallion; a leek or small onion. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
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Porridge (?), n. [Probably corrupted fr. pottage; perh. influenced by OE. porree a kind of pottage, OF. porrée, fr. L. porrum, porrus, leek. See , and cf. .] A food made by boiling some leguminous or farinaceous substance, or the meal of it, in water or in milk, making of broth or thin pudding; as, barley porridge, milk porridge, bean porridge, etc.
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Porringer (?), n. [OE. pottanger, for pottager; cf. F. potager a soup basin. See .] A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
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Port (?), n. [From Oporto, in Portugal, i. e., � porto the port, L. portus. See harbor.] A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.
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Port, n. [AS. port, L. portus: cf. F. port. See , v., , and 1st, 3d, & 4h .] 1. A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively.
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