portmanteau 
and therefore nearly cylindrical and of flexi- 
ble make. 
There are old leather portmanteau* like stranded por- 
poises, their mouths gaping in gaunt hunger for the food 
with which they used U> be gorged to repletion 
0. W. Holmet, Poet at the Breakfast Table, I. 
2. A trunk, especially a leather trunk of small 
size. 3. A hook or bracket on which to hang 
a garment, especially one which holds a coat 
or cloak securely for brushing, 
port-man tick t, n. A corrupt form of portman- 
trti n . 
He would linger no longer, and play at cards in King 
Philip's palace, till the messenger with the port-mantick 
came from Kome. 
Bp. Hocket, Abp. Williams, L 160. (Davits.) 
portmantlet (port-man'tl), . [An accom. form 
of F.portemanteau: see portmanteau.] A port- 
manteau. 
And out of the sheriffs portmantle 
He told three hundred pound. 
Robin Hood and the Butcher (Child's Ballads, V. S8). 
portmantuat, . Same as portmanteau. 
Fol. Where be the masking suite ? 
Maie. In your lordship's portmantua. 
Middleton, Mad World, II. '. 
Your cunningest thieves ... use to cut off the port- 
mantua from behind, without staying to dive Into the pock- 
ets of the owner. Swift, To a Young Poet 
port-mote (port'mot), n. [A8. "port-genwt (not 
found), (port, a town, + gemot, meeting: see 
port* and mote 3 , moot 1 .] In early Eng. hint., 
a court or moot composed of the portmen or 
burghers of a port-town, corresponding to the 
leet of other places. Also called portnuin-mote. 
These legal ports were undoubtedly at first assigned by 
the crown ; since to each of them a court of portmote Is In- 
cident, the jurisdiction of which must flow from the royal 
authority. Blackstone, Com., I. vii. 
portoirt, [< OF. portoir, m., a bearing branch 
(sc. de vigne, of a vine),< porter, bear: see port 3 .] 
One who or that which bears ; hence, one who 
or that which produces. 
Branches which were portoirt and bear grapes the year 
before. Holland. (Kncyc. Diet.) 
portoiset (por'tiz), M. [Appar. for 'portoire, < 
OF. portoire, f., a bearer, support, as a barrow, 
basket, etc., the span of the door of a coach, 
etc., (porter, bear, carry: see port 3 . Cf. port- 
last.] The gunwale of a ship: in the phrase ri 
portoise, said of yard-arms resting on the gun- 
wale. 
Port Orford cedar. See Ckamaoyparis, and 
ginger-pine (under pine 1 ). 
portost, portoost, portoust, . Middle Eng- 
lish forms of portass. 
portourt, A Middle English form of porter-. 
port-panet (port'pan), n. [< OF. porte-pain, < 
porter, carry, + pain, bread: see port 3 and 
pain 2 .] A cloth in which bread was carried 
in order that it might not be touched by the 
hands. 
port-piecet (port'pes), n. [< OF. porte-piece, a 
part of armor, also (as in F. porte-piece) a shoe- 
maker's awl ; < porter, carry, + piece, piece : see 
port 3 and piece.] A kind of cannon used in the 
sixteenth century, mentioned as employed on 
board ship. 
portrait (por'trat), . [Formerly also pourtrait, 
pourtraict, portract (= D. portret = GK portrat 
= Sw. portrat = Dan. portrat) ; < OF. portrait, 
pourtrait, portraict, pourtraict, F. portrait, < 
ML. protractus, a portrait, prop, an image, por- 
trait, plan, pp. of protrahere (> OF. portraire, 
etc.), depict, portray: see portray.] 1. A draw- 
ing, representation, delineation, or picture of 
a person or a thing ; specifically, a picture of 
a person, drawn from life ; especially, a picture 
or representation of the face ; a likeness, whe- 
ther executed in oil or water-color, in crayon, 
on steel, by photography, in marble, etc., but 
particularly in oil : as, a painter of portraits. 
The sayde Besson left, in witnesse of his excellencle In 
that Art, a booke in prynt, conteynlng the fourmes or 
portractfs of syxtie engins of marueytous strange and pro- 
fytable deuice, for diuers commodious and necessary vses. 
/.'- Kill' n. First Books on America (ed. Arber, p. \hii.i. 
Even in portraits the grace, and we may add the like- 
ness, consists more In taking the general air than in ob- 
serving the exact similitude of every feature. 
Sir J. Reynold!, Discourses, iv. 
2. A vivid description or delineation in words. 
But. if Jonson has been accused of having servilely giv- 
en portrait* and we have Just seen In what an extraor- 
dinary way they are portraits his learning has also been 
alleged as something more objectionable in the dramatic 
art ; and we have often heard something of the pedantry 
of Jonson. /. D'ltraeli, Amen, of Lit, II. 245. 
Berlin portraits, in phntog. eeyran,e.,s. Compos- 
ite portrait. See composite photograph, under compo*- 
ite. 
4633 
portrait! (por'trftt), t>. t. [Also pourtraict; < 
portrait, n.] To portray; draw. 
I labour to pourtraict In Arthure, before he was king 
the image of a brave knight 
Speiuer, F. Q., To the Reader. 
A Painter should more beueltte her to purtraile a most 
sweet face, wrytlng Canidla vpon It, then to paint Canldia 
as she was. Sir p. Sidney, ApoL for Poetrie. 
portraitist (por'tra-tist), . [= F. portraitiste; 
eta portrait + -int.] ' A maker of portraits; a por- 
trait-painter; one who devotes his attention 
particularly to portraits, as a photographer. 
A young French artist, who Is among the " really good " 
as a portraitist. Contemporary Ret., tlv. 88. 
portrait-lens (por'trat-lenz), n. One of a clas.s 
of double or triple photographic lenses espe- 
cially adapted for taking portraits. 
PeUval designed the portrait-lent I In photography), in 
which two achromatic lenses, placed at a certain distance 
apart, combine to form the image. 
Lord Kayleiyh, Encyc. Brit, XVIL 805. 
portrait-painter (por'trat-pan'ter), . One 
whose occupation is the painting of portraits. 
portrait-stone (por'trat-ston), n. In gem-cut- 
ting, a lask, or flat diamond, occasionally with 
several rows of small facets around the edge, 
used to cover miniatures or small portraits. 
portraiture (por'tra-tur), H. [Formerly also 
portrature, pourtraitur'e ; < ME. portreiture, por- 
treture, portratotrre, < OF.pourtraicture, F. por- 
traiture, < OF.pourtraire, F.portraire, portray: 
see portrait.] 1. A representation or picture ; 
a painted resemblance ; a likeness or portrait. 
We will imitate the olde paynters In Greece, who, draw- 
ing In theyr Tables the fxirlrature of Jupiter, were euery 
honre mending it, but durst ncuer nnlah It. 
I.Hlii, Euphues and his England, p. 2A7. 
There Is an exquisite pottrtraiture of a great horse made 
of white stone. Coryat, Crudities, I. 35, slg. I). 
2. Likenesses or portraits collectively. 
The portreiture that was upon the wal 
Withlune the temple of mighty Mars the reede. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, I. lllo. 
I'nclasp me, Stranger, and unfold 
With trembling care my leaves of gold, 
Rich In Uothic portraiture. 
Rajers, Voyage of Columbus(inscribed on the original MS.). 
3. The art of making portraits ; the art or prac- 
tice of portraying or depicting, whether in pic- 
tures or in words; the art of the portraitist. 
Portraiture, which, taken In Its widest sense, Includes 
all representation not only of human beings, but also of 
visible objects In nature. 
C. T. Xeirton, Art and Archawl., p. 26. 
portraituret (por'tra-tur), r. t. [< portraiture, 
n.] Topamt; portray. ShaftetoWf. 
portray (por-tra ), r. [Formerlyalso;>or<ra#; 
< ME. portraycn, portreyen, pourtraien, pur- 
trayen, purtrcyi-n, < OF. portraire, pourtrairc 
(ppr. portrayant), F. portrairr = It. protraere, 
protrarrc, < ML. protrahere, paint, depict, a 
later use of L. protrahere, draw forth, reveal, 
extend, protract, < pro, forth, + trahere, draw: 
see tracft, trait. Cf. protract.] I, trang. 1. To 
depict; reproduce the lineaments of; draw or 
paint to the life. 
I haue him portreide an payuted in mi hert wlthinne, 
That he slttus In ml sijt me thlnkcs euermore. 
W illin in of Palertu (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 445. 
Take thee a tile, and lay It before thee, and paurtray 
upon It the city, even Jerusalem. Ezek. iv. L 
2. To depict or describe vividly in words; de- 
scribe graphically or vividly. 
Ther was nothinge that she loved so moche, ffor he was 
so like the kynge Ban as he hadde be portreyrd. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), IIL 675. 
Scott portrayed with equal strength and success every 
figure in his crowded company. Emenon, Walter Scott 
3t. To adorn with pictures or portraits. 
Portreid It was with briddes freshly, 
Thys fair pauilon rich was in seing. 
Rom. of Partmay (F.. E. T. 8.), 1. 1003. 
Rigid spears and helmets throng'd, and shields 
Various, with boastful argument portray'd. 
Hilton, P. L., vl. 84. 
= 8yn. 1 and 2. To delineate, sketch, represent 
fl.t intrans. To paint. 
He conde songes make and wel endlte, 
Juste and eek daunce and wel purtreye. and write. 
Chaucer, Oen. Prol. to C. T., L 96. 
portrayal (por-tra'al), . [< portray + -al] 
The act of portraying; delineation; represen- 
tation. 
portrayer (por-tra'er), M. [< ME. portrayer, por- 
treyour, < OF. portriiinr. i>ourtniyrnr, a painter, 
< portraire, portray: see portray.] One who 
portrays; a painter; one who paints, draws, or 
describes to the life. 
Ne portreyour ne kervere of ymafces. 
Chaueer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1041. 
portngue 
Remembre my brotheria ston. ... It Is told me that 
the man at Sent P*idls Is no klenly portrayer; therfor I 
wold fayn It myth be portrayed be sum otllr man and he 
to grave It up. Potion Letter*, IIL 268. 
A poet ... Is the faithful portrayer of Nature, whose 
features an always the same, and always interesting. 
Irrinij, Sketch-Book, p. 100. 
portreeve (port'rev), . [< ME.portrere (ML. 
portirere, portgrevius), < AS. portgerefa, a port- 
reeve, < port, a port, town, -f- gerifa, reeve : see 
porti and reeve.] The chief magistrate of a 
port or maritime town ; in early Eng. hist., the 
representative or appointee of the crown hav- 
ing authority over a mercantile town. The ap- 
|H>lntment was made with especial reference to the good 
order of a crowded commercial population, and the col- 
lection of royal revenues there, the functions of this otlt- 
cer having a general correspondence to those of a shir- 
gerefa (sheriff) In a county. Formerly also porti/ratt. 
The chief magistrate of London In these times is always 
called the Port-Keere. 
K. A. freeman, Norman Conquest, III. 491. 
portreiset, . Same as portans. Aachani, The 
Scholemaster, p. 7. 
portress, . See portcress. 
portreyt, '' An obsolete form of portray. 
port-rope (port'rop), M. A rope or tackle for 
hauling up and suspending the ports or covers 
ofport -holes. Also port-tackle and port-lanyard. 
port-rule (porfrOl), M. An instrument, or a 
system of mechanism, which carries, moves, or 
regulates the motion of a rule in a machine. 
port-sale (port'sal), . [< twr/i + nale.] A 
public sale of goods to the highest bidder; an 
auction. 
I have repaired and rigged the ship of knowledge, . . . 
that she may salely pass alx.ut and through all parts of 
this noble realm, and there make port mil of her wished 
wares. Hnruiau, Caveat for Cnrsetors, p. Iv. 
When Sylla had taken the cltle of Rome, he made port, 
ale. of the goods of them whom he had put to death. 
XoriJi, tr. of PluUrch, p. 4(18. 
port-sill (port 'sil), M. Ill xhip-nuildmy, a piece of 
timber let in horizontally between two frames, 
to form the upper or lower side of a port. 
port-stopper (port'stop'er), n. A heavy piece 
of iron, rotating on a vertical axis, serving to 
close a port in a turret-ship. 
port-tackle (port'tak'l), n. Same AH port-rope. 
port-town (port 'toun),n. A town having a port, 
or situated near a port. 
portuaryt (por'tu-a-ri), . Same asportaxg. 
Portugal (por'ta-gal), a. and n. [Formerly 
also Portingal, Portingall (cf. OF. Portingaloin, 
8p. 1'ortugalese, ML. I'ortugalensis, Portu- 
guese); < Pg. Hp. I'ortugal (ML. Portugalia), 
Portugal, ong. (ML.) I'orttix Cale, 'the port 
Cal,' the fuller name of the city now called 
Oporto ('the port'), transferred to the kingdom 
itself: L. portu, port ; Cale, the city so called, 
now Oporto.] I. a. Pertaining to Portugal; 
Portuguese Portugal crakeberry, laurel, etc. See 
the nouns. 
Il.t A native or an inhabitant of Portu- 
gal ; a Portuguese. 
The Spaniards and Portuaalet In Barbarie, in the Indies, 
and elsewhere haue 
ordlnarle confeder- 
acie and tramke with 
the Moores. 
Hakluyt'g Voyayct, 
[II., I>ed. 
portuguet, por- 
tegnet, " [Also 
portaguc, por- 
tigue; (.OF.por- 
tttgaixe (also por- 
tugalle, portuga- 
loise), a Portu- 
guese coin so 
called (seedef.); 
fern, of por- 
t HI/II ix, Portu- 
guese: see Por- 
tuguese.'] A gold 
coin of Portugal, 
current in the 
sixteenth centu- 
ry, and weighing 
abou 1 540 grains, 
worth about 
$22.50 United 
States money. 
An egge is eaten 
at one sup, and a 
portayut lost at one 
cast. 
Lyly, Midas, IL 2. 
For the com pound- 
ing of my wordes, 
therein I Imitate 
rich men, who. hav- 
1571-57. - Britta 
the ixiginal. ( 
