Vocabulary : Porporino to Porta

Porporino : A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold.
Porpus : A porpoise.
Porraceous : Resembling the leek in color; greenish.
Porrect : Extended horizontally; stretched out.
Porrection : The act of stretching forth.

Porret : A scallion; a leek or small onion.
Porridge : 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.
Porringer : A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer.
Port : A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol. ;; A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. ;; In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages. ;; A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. ;; An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening. ;; A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face. ;; To carry; to bear; to transport. ;; To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and cro
Porta : The part of the liver or other organ where its vessels and nerves enter; the hilus. ;; The foramen of Monro.

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