pork 
a swine, bog;, pig (porca, f., or porcits feminn, 
a sow), = Lith. pnrssas = W. porch = It. ore 
(with reg. loss of initial p) = A&.fearh, E.far- 
roic, a pig: see/an'Oioi.J 1. Aswine; hog; pig; 
porker. 
Foveralle and pastorelles passed e one aityre, 
\\ ith porket to pasture at the price sates. 
Morte ArOnire (E. E. T. S.), L 3122. 
2. The flesh of swine, used as meat. 
Then for ten days did I diet him 
Only with burnt park, sir, and gammons of bacon. 
Fletcher (and another). Love's Cure, 111. 2. 
3f. A stupid, obstinate, or ignorant person ; a 
pig-headed fellow. 
I mean not to dispute philosophy with this fork, who 
never read any. Hilton, Colasterlon. 
M6S3 pork, the best quality or grade of pork : so called 
originally because In the navy the best pork was supplied 
to the officers' mess. 
pork-butcher (pork'buch'er), n. One who kills 
pork-chop (pork'chop'), . A slice from the 
ribs of a pig. 
pork-eater (pork'e'ter), . One who feeds on 
swine's flesh. 
If we grow all to be pork-caters, we shall not shortly 
have a rasher on the coals for money. 
Shak., M. of V., III. 5. 27. 
porker (por'ker), n. [< pork + -erl; perhaps 
orig. for porket.] A hog; a pig; especially, 
one fatted for killing. 
Straight to the lodgments of hla herd he run, 
Where the fat porkerg slept beneath the HUH. 
Pope, Odyssey, xlv. H6. 
porkespickt, n. Same AS porcupine, 
He gaue for his deulce the porketpick with this posie, 
pres et loign, both farre and neare. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 118. 
porket (por'ket), n. [< OF. parquet, poirltet. 
2>ourcliet (= It. porclietto), dim. of pore, a hog: 
see pork.] A young hog. 
We now are Gergesites, that would rather lose Christ 
than our porkett. 
J. Bradford, Letters (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 04. 
porkling (pork'ling), H. [<pork + -ling' 1 .] A 
young pig. 
Through plenty of acorns the porklingt to fat 
Tusstr, October's Husbandry, st. 34. 
porknellt, . [ME., < pork + double dim. 
-n-el.] A little pig; also, a gross, fat person. 
Polldarius, the porkiiell, and his pere Machaon, 
Suet with the xvtj, sad men A noble. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. 8.), I. 6368. 
pork-pie (pork'pi'), . A pie made of pastry 
and minced pork Pork-pie hat, the popular name 
of a hat resembling a deep meat-pie, worn by Ixjth men 
ami women about 1860, distinguished by n brim wbieh 
turned up around the crown, leaving but a narrow space 
between the crown and itself, the crown being low and 
the brim sloping slightly outward. 
pork-pit (pork'pit), . That part of the floor 
of a produce-exchange in which dealers in pork 
congregate and transact their business. 
pork-porkt (pork'pork), v. i. [Imitative. Cf. 
more-pork:'] To utter the cry of the raven; 
sound like the cry of a raven. 
From the mountains nigh, 
The rav'ns begin with their park-parking cry. 
Sylixtter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
pork-sausage (pork'sa'saj), n. A sausage made 
of minced pork with various seasoning or fla- 
voring ingredients. 
porkwood (pdrk'wud), n. The pigeonwood, 
beefwood, or corkwood, Pisonia obtusata. 
porky (por'ki), a. [< pork + -y*.] 1. Pork- 
like : as, a porky odor permeated the whole 
prostitu- 
passion- 
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place. 2. Fat; plump, 
pornial (pdr'ni-al), a. [< Or. iropvcia, 
tion, a prostitute, + -a?.] Lawlessly 
ate; meretricious. 
To the "pornial fire " of the Elizabethan period had sue- 
ceeded an age of patient researeh and cool criticism. 
The American, VI. 41. 
pornocracy (p6r-nok'ra-si), n. [< Gr. iropvq, a 
prostitute (prob. orig. 'a bought female cap- 
tive,' < xrpvaivu (vepvtiftt), send or export for 
sale, sell, esp. of captives who were transport- 
ed and sold: akin to L. pretium, price: see 
price), + -Kparia, < uparflv, rule.] The rule of 
prostitutes; dominating influence of courte- 
zans The Pornocracy, n party which controlled the 
government of Rome and the elections to the papacy 
throughout the first half of the tenth century ; the rule 
or government of this party : so called from the para- 
mount influence of three women of noble family but 
profligate lives, Theodora and her daughters Theodora 
and Marozla(Mury). 
pornograph (por'no-graf), H. [< LGr. JTOOVO- 
jpatjxx;, writing of prostitutes: see pornography.] 
An obscene picture or writing. 
pornographer (por-nog'ra-fer), n. [< pornog- 
raplt-y + -er.j One who 'writes of prostitutes 
or obscene subjects. 
The literary offence* of French porruxjraphm and co- 
prologista. fortnightly Rn., .N. ., XL111. 745. 
pornographic (por-no-graf'ik), a. [< pornog- 
rapli-y + -if.] Of, pertaining to, or of the na- 
ture of pornography ; describing or descriptive 
of prostitutes ; having to do with pornographs. 
pornography (p6r-nog'ra-fi), . |= F.pomo- 
grapSte; LGr. as if 'iropvoipafia, < Topw>;/xj0of, 
writing of prostitutes, painting prostitutes, < 
Gr. viipvti, a prostitute, + ypa<titn; write.] A de- 
scription of or treatise on prostitutes or pros- 
titution; hence, obscene writing. 
porodinic (po-ro-diu'ik), n. [< Gr. iropof , a pore, 
+ A'iof, rotation, a round area.] Reproducing 
or bringing forth by means of a special pore or 
opening of the body, through which the genital 
products are extruded : distinguished from 
tcltitodfaic. Two porodinic methods are dis- 
tinguished as nejilirodinic and iduxltitic. Encijc. 
Brit., XVI. 682. 
porophyllous (po-ro-fil'us), n. [< Gr. Tdpor, 
pore, -f W/ov, leaf."] Having leaves sprinkled 
with transparent points. Tliomus, Med. Diet. 
Porosa (po-ro'sS), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of ;<oro- 
SHK: see poroxe.] Perforate or porose corals : 
distinguished from Aporosa or Eporosa. Ferfo- 
rnta is a synonym. 
porose (p6 7 r6s),'<T. [< NL. porostis, full of pores: 
nee porous.'] 1. Containing pores; porous; per- 
forate. Specifically- (a) Of corals, perforate: distin- 
guished from apnronf or rporote. (6) Of the sculpture of 
Insects, dotted or pitted as if lull of little holes. The ely- 
tra of species of Apion, for example, are porose. 
2. In hoi., pierced with small holes or pores. 
porosis (po-ro'sis), . [NL., < Gr. xupuoic, the 
process by which the extremities of fractured 
bones are reunited, < rrupoi'i; cause a callus to 
form, unite (fractured bones) by a callus, < r<i- 
por, a node on the bones.] Format ion of callus, 
as in the knitting together of broken bones. 
porosity (po-ros'1-ti), . [= F. porositf = Si>. 
poi'oxitliifl = Pg. poroxidatle = It. poronita, < NL. 
*poro8ita(t-)s,'(.}>oro9H8, porous: see jxirons.] 1. 
The state or quality of being porose, porous, or 
pervious; perforation. 
The fifteenth [cause] Is the prtrotrity or imporosity IH?- 
twfxt the tangible parts, and the greatness or smallness 
of the pores. Bacon, Nat. Hist., ( 846. 
All matter is porous or possesses porotity. Hydrogen 
gas leaks through white hot Iron under pressure; cold 
water can be pressed through iron ... or through lead. 
Ihini.-ll. nin. of Physics, p. 194. 
2. A pore or perforation. 
The nerves with their Invisible parnritift. 
Dr. //. Morr, Immortal, of Soul, U. 8. 
porotype (po'ro-tip), . [< Gr. iropnr, a pore, + 
riTof, impression.] A print produced by ex- 
posing another print or a writing, placed on the 
surface of chemically prepared paper, to a gas 
which permeates those parts of the thing to 
be copied which are not rendered impervious 
by the ink, and thus acts upon the chemical 
surface in the same way that light acts upon 
the sensitized film of paper exposed under a 
photographic negative. 
porous (po'rus), a. [= D.poreits = G. 8w. Dan. 
poros = OF. poreur, F. ftoreta = Pr. poros = 
Sp. Pg. It. poroso, < NL. porosus, porous, < L. 
jM>riM,pore: see pore 2 .] Having pores; porose; 
pervious by means of minute interstices. 
Through veins 
Of forma earth, with kindly thirst up drawn, 
Rose a fresh fountain. MOton, P. L., iv. 228. 
According to what is here presented, what Is most dense 
and least porotu will be most coherent and least discern- 
ible, (jlanrilir, Vanity of Dogmatizing, v. 
A sponge is forma, having small spaces between the 
solid parts. 
Theodore Parker, Ten Sermons. Justice and her Conscience. 
Porous cup, a vessel of unglazed earthenware used In a 
voltaic cell to separate the two liquids employed. See 
ctU. 8. - Porous plaster. See platter. 
porously (po'rus-li), adv. By means of pores; 
in a porous manner; perviously ; interatitially. 
porousness (po'rus-nes), n. 1. Porosity. 
Some fish have no mouths, but are nourished and Uke 
breath by the poroumea of their gills. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 73. 
2. The pores or porous parts of anything. 
[Rare.] 
They will forcibly get into the parouatttt of It. and put 
between part and part. Sir K. Diffbf, Nature of Bodies. 
porpaiset, . An obsolete form of porpoise. 
porpentinet, Same as pm-nipim-. 
porpesset, An obsolete form of porpoise. 
porpezite (p6r'pez-it), M. [< / J </ri)j (see def.) 
+ -iff 2 .] A variety of native gold containing a 
porphyritic 
small percentage of palladium. That first de- 
scribed was from Porpez in Brazil. 
porpblret, An obsolete variant of porphyry. 
porphuriet, >< An obsolete variant of pnrphi/ry. 
Porphyra (por'lt-rii), . [N1-. (Agardh), < Gr. 
vvpet /HI, purple: see jmrpliyry.] A small genus 
of florideons algip, giving name to the suborder 
I'orpliyreH'. The fronds are gelatinous, membranaceons, 
and composed of a single layer of brownish-red cell* hear- 
ing the spores on the maixln of the frond, eight In num- 
ber, arising from a single mother cell. P. laciiiiata, the 
laver, is the beat-known and most widely distributed spe- 
cies. It has fronds from S to is Inches In length, of a 
li\ til-purple color. See fcuvr-', 1, and marine tauct (under 
tnariitf\ 
porphyraceous (por-fl-ra'shius), a. [< por- 
pliyr-y + -act-out.] Same ttaporpliyritic. 
porphyrei (por'fir), n. An obsolete form of 
jtoi'pliyry. 
Consider the red and white colours in purphyn; hinder 
light but from striking on It, Its colours vanish, and pro- 
duce no such Ideas In us; but upon the return o( light It 
produces these appearances again. Loekt. 
Porphyreae (i>dr-fir'e-e), ti.pl. TNI,., < Poniliy- 
ra + -etr.] A small suborder of norideous aigo>, 
t>-pifie<l by the genus J'orpht/ra, and character- 
ized by having brownish-purple fronds, which 
are composed of cells embedded in a gelatinous 
network, and arranged in filaments or in mem- 
branes formed of a single layer of cells. The 
spores, of which there are eight, formed by n division of 
each mother-cell, are arranged by fours In two layers ; the 
anthcrozolds are spherical, colorless, and formed by the 
division of a mother-cell Into Si or 64 parts. 
Porphyrio(p6r-Hr'i-6), ii. [NL. (Brisson. 1760), 
< L. pori>liyrio(n-) (> It. porfirioiie = 8p. porji- 
rion = Pg. porJiriSo = F. porplnjrion),<. Gr. iropipv- 
pluv, the purple gallinule (t'orphyrio rctemrn), < 
Kopfi-pa, purple: see jMirptiyry.] 1. A genus of 
Hull/it.-!', representing a subfamily I'oi-pliyrio- 
iiiiitr; the |x>rphyrios, snltHiis, hyacinths, or hy- 
acinthine gallinules. These birds art closely related 
to the common gallinules or uaUT-hens. but are generally 
of larger size, with stouter bill and longer legs, and more 
stately carriage: the plumage Is very rich and elegant, 
with Intenseblue, purple, and other striking tints. There 
areabout it species. Inhabiting warm temperate and tropi- 
cal countries of i Kit h benilspberea. 1'hey live In marshes, 
like other ralllforni or paliidicole birds of the same family, 
and their habits are similar. />. rrterum Is the form of 
Black-barked Sullan .Porphyr tntlattortii>. 
aoutheni F.un>nc and northern Africa: P. tuiara'jnutut Is 
African, /'. mrlannlui Australian. The purple gallinule of 
America Is /'. marHnieni, often placed In a separate genus 
lonfirnif. See galiinule. 
2. | '. '. | A bird of this genus; a sultan: a 
purple gallinule. 
Porphyrionina(por-fir' r i-o-ni'iie), .//. [NL., 
< Porpliyrio(n-) -r -iuir.] A subfamily of pa- 
ludicole or rallifonn wading birds of the family 
Rnllidif, wpresented by the genus 1'ornliyrio. 
having the bill stout, with the base of Hie cul- 
nien mounting on the forehead as a frontal 
shield, the legs long and strong, and the toes 
margined; the purple gallinules, usually re- 
tained in iliilliiiiiliiia-. 
porphyrionine (por-fir'i-6-nin), a. [< NL. 
I'orpuyrwiiiHir, q. v.] Belonging to the I'or- 
pltyriouiiia-. 
porphyrisation, porphyrise. See )<orpi,yriza- 
titni, iHtrjihyrizf, 
porphyrit (por'fi-rit), n. [< L. porj>Jiyrite * : 
see porphyry.] The name given to those por- 
phyries in which the ground-mass consists 
chiefly of a triclinic feldspar, together with 
either angite or hornblende, or, in some cases, 
ofbiotite: in this ground-mass larger crystals 
of the same species are porphyritiea'ly devel- 
oped. The porphyrite* are clasaed by some author* as 
diorttf- or diaoasc-potphyrites : In the former the ground- 
man contains hornblende: In the latter, angite in run- 
nectlon with the plagiocl.ire. With these occur certain 
accessory minerals, such as magnetite, tltanlfcrous Iron, 
etc. Vaiirms names are given to these rocks. In accor- 
dance with the nature of the minerals porphyritk-al]> ( - 
y]u)>il in tlir uioiitKl-mass, ns hornblende porphyrite, 
mica porpliiiritf. augite porphyritr, etc. 
porphyritic ipor-fi-rit'ik), 11. f= F. iHn-plii/ri- 
tii/iic = It. purUn '/iV, < L. j>or}>hyrite : see par- 
