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 Porreux: m. euse: f. Porie, full of pores.

Porriere: f. A bed of Leekes.

Porrion. as Porion. Port: m. A Port, Hauen, or Harbour for Ships; also, carriage, bearing, or bringing; also, custome, fraight, or a fare payed for carriage; also, the carriage, behauior, or demeanour of a man; also, his port, or state; or, the fauour, or good opinion which he hath in the world.  Maistre des Ports. Looke Maistre. Par port d'armes. Violently, in hostile manner, by force of armes, or by maine force.  Nul vent ne fait pour celuy qui n'a point de port destiné: Prov. No wind serues him that hath no certaine hauen.

Portache. as Procace. Portage: m. Portage, carriage, or a carrying; also, the custome, toll, fraight, fare, or fee, payed for carriage.

Portail: m. A Portall for a dore.

Portant: m. ante: f. Carrying, bearing; also, wearing.  Le fort portant le foible. One with another, or one helping the other; good and bad, weake and strong, altogether.  L'un portant l'autre. The same.

Portatif: m. iue: f. Portatiue; also, wieldie, or liuelie of bodie.  Iardin portatif. A fruitfull garden.  Livre portatif. A pocket-booke.

Portatisse. Portatiue, portable, carryable.

Port'-aubans: m. Chaine-wales; peeces of wood nayled on both the outsides of a Ship, to keepe them from being worne, or galled by the Shrowdes.

Porte: f. A Port, or Gate; a great, or outward, doore; any entrance, or way to enter at; also, a hauther, or eye; also, the port of a sword-hilt.  La porte des champs. The backe-doore, or field-doore, of a countrey house.  Droict de porte. Gate-money; a dutie payed by the schollers of Paris at their admission into a Colledge.  Fausse porte. An inner gate, or doore; also, a posterne gate, or backe doore.  Veine porte. Looke Veine. Donner de la porte sur le nez à. To exclude, shut a doore against, or shut out of doores.  Tout cela est frappé à la porte d'un trespassé. All thats but losse of time, or labour lost.  Hardiment heurte à la porte qui bonne nouvelle apporte: Pro. He that good tidings beares full boldly knocketh.  Les derniers venus ferment les portes: Prov. The last commer latches the doore, maketh all sure.  Trop tost vient à la porte qui mauvaise nouvelle apporte: Prov. Too soone arriues he that ill tidings hath.

Porté: m. ée: f. Carried, borne, conueyed; vpheld, sustained; indured; also, worne; also, hit; whence; Ce coup n'a pas porté. This blow hath fayled, or mißed. À pied tout porté, pour. Forward, readie, on his way, to. Il y est expressément porté, que. There is expresse mention made, or charge giuen, of; thereby it is expressely meant, or signified, that. Tout cela s'estoit fort bien porté, iusques. Was passing well handled, or managed; went verie well on, vntill. Porte-brandons. Fierie, flaming, light; whence;  Ciel por. The starrie Welkin, the cleere Sky.

Porte-chappe: m. A Cope-wearer; a Priest, or one that by his place doth often weare a Cope; also, a feast-*furnisher; one that hires out all manner of naperie and vessell, & all other prouision whatsoeuer (except victuals) fit for the setting out of a feast.

Porte-ciel. Heauen-bearing, Sky-vpholding; (An Epithete for Atlas.)

Porte-colle. as Protecole. Portée: f. The burthen, or fruit of a womans wombe; the brood, or litter of a beast; also, the breeding, bearing, or bringing forth of young; also, wit, capacitie, vnderstanding; also, the state, qualitie, condition, or abilitie, of an estate, bodie, &c; also, power, or abilitie to requite; also, a certaine land-measure comprehending 12 cords (of 30 feet to the cord) and vsed most in Burgundie.  La portée d'un Arquebuse. The reach thereof; or, as farre as it will shoot; whence;  Sous la portée de l'Arquebuse. Within Caleeuer shot.  Cela est cause de plus grande portée. That causeth a greater increase of fruits, &c.  Il n'a plus de sçavoir acquis que ce qu'il en faut pour sa portée. He hath got no more skill then he needs.

Portées. The boughes which a Deere bruseth, or beareth downe, with his head in trauersing of thickets.  Courir vn cerf sur les portées. To pursue a Deere with nose aloft.

Porte-escritoire: m. A Notaries boy; one that serues but to carrie his pen and inkhorne after him.

Port'-espée: f. A Sword-bearer; one that carries a sword before, or after, another; also, a Bawdricke, or Hanger, for a sword.

Porte-faix: m. A Porter; Pedlar; Burthen-bearer.

Porte-flambeaux. Ciel port. The starrie, flaming, or bright Sky.

Porte-fleurs. Flourishing, flower-bearing; whence;  Element porte-fleurs. The earth.

Porte-fraise: m. A Rebato, or supporter for a Ruffe; wrought, or imbrodered, and cut into diuers panes.

Porte-guidon: m. An Ensigne-bearer vnto a troope of men of Armes.

Porte-harnois: m. A Crosse; the crosse-like Pearch whereon an Armor is vsually hanged.

Porte-haubant. as Port'-aubans. Porte-manteau: m. A Port-mantue, Cloake-bag, Male; also, the carrier of a Cloake, or a Cloake-bag-carrier.  Porte-manteau du Roy. The Kings Cloake-bag-bearer.

Portement: m. A carrying, bearing; wearing; supporting, vpholding; also, health, or liking.

Porte-mors: m. The cheeke-peece, or cheeke-band, of a Bridle.

Portente: m. A prodigious, or monstrous thing.

Portenteux: m. euse: f. Prodigious, monstrous, maruelous, astonishing, strange.

Porte-panier: m. A basket-carrier; also, a Pedler.

Porte-parole. A meßage-carrier betweene partie and partie.

Port-peine: com. Laborious, painefull, paines-taking.

Porte-piece: f. A Shoomakers Punch, or Punchion.