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Apporter
Apporter Ap*por"ter, n. [Cf. F. apporter to bring in, fr. L.
apportare; ad + portare to bear.]
A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
ColporterColporter Col"por`ter, n.
Same as Colporteur. Dehorter
Dehorter De*hort"er, n.
A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]
Distorter
Distorter Dis*tort"er, n.
One who, or that which, distorts.
Exhorter
Exhorter Ex*hort"er, n.
One who exhorts or incites.
Exporter
Exporter Ex*port"er, n.
One who exports; the person who sends goods or commodities to
a foreign country, in the way of commerce; -- opposed to
importer.
Extorter
Extorter Ex*tort"er, n.
One who practices extortion.
Importer
Importer Im*port"er, n.
One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country
or state; -- opposed to exporter.
Lip comforterLip Lip (l[i^]p), n. [OE. lippe, AS. lippa; akin to D. lip, G.
lippe, lefze, OHG. lefs, Dan. l[ae]be, Sw. l["a]pp, L.
labium, labrum. Cf. Labial.]
1. One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of
the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips
are organs of speech essential to certain articulations.
Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the
organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.
Thine own lips testify against thee. --Job xv. 6.
2. An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything;
a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.
3. The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.
4. (Bot.)
(a) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate
corolla. (b) The odd and peculiar petal in the
Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.
5. (Zo["o]l.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve
shell.
Lip bit, a pod auger. See Auger.
Lip comfort, comfort that is given with words only.
Lip comforter, one who comforts with words only.
Lip labor, unfelt or insincere speech; hypocrisy. --Bale.
Lip reading, the catching of the words or meaning of one
speaking by watching the motion of his lips without
hearing his voice. --Carpenter.
Lip salve, a salve for sore lips.
Lip service, expression by the lips of obedience and
devotion without the performance of acts suitable to such
sentiments.
Lip wisdom, wise talk without practice, or unsupported by
experience.
Lip work.
(a) Talk.
(b) Kissing. [Humorous] --B. Jonson.
To make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or
contempt. --Shak.
To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by
protruding the lip. PorterPorter Por"ter, n. [F. portier, L. portarius, from porta a
gate, door. See Port a gate.]
A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who
waits at the door to receive messages. --Shak.
To him the porter openeth. --John x. 3. PorterPorter Por"ter, n. [F. porteur, fr. porter to carry, L.
portare. See Port to carry.]
1. A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage,
etc.; for hire.
2. (Forging) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a
forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of
which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which
the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and
heating; -- called also porter bar.
3. A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter
taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
Note: Porter is said to be so called as having been first
used chiefly by the London porters, and this
application of the word is supposed to be not older
than 1750. porter barPorter Por"ter, n. [F. porteur, fr. porter to carry, L.
portare. See Port to carry.]
1. A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage,
etc.; for hire.
2. (Forging) A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a
forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of
which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which
the forging is lifted and handled in hammering and
heating; -- called also porter bar.
3. A malt liquor, of a dark color and moderately bitter
taste, possessing tonic and intoxicating qualities.
Note: Porter is said to be so called as having been first
used chiefly by the London porters, and this
application of the word is supposed to be not older
than 1750. Porterage
Porterage Por"ter*age, n.
1. The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a
doorkeeper.
2. Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or
parcels by a porter.
PorteressPorteress Por"ter*ess, n.
See Portress. PorterhousePorterhouse Por"ter*house, n.
A house where porter is sold.
Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet,
including the upper and under part. Porterhouse steakPorterhouse Por"ter*house, n.
A house where porter is sold.
Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet,
including the upper and under part. Reporter
Reporter Re*port"er (-[~e]r), n.
One who reports. Specifically:
(a) An officer or person who makes authorized statements of
law proceedings and decisions, or of legislative debates.
(b) One who reports speeches, the proceedings of public
meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers.
Resorter
Resorter Re*sort"er (-?r), n.
One who resorts; a frequenter.
Retorter
Retorter Re*tort"er, n.
One who retorts.
ShorterShort Short, a. [Compar. Shorter; superl. Shortest.] [OE.
short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel.
skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v.
t. Cf. Shirt.]
1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a
short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
himself on it. --Isa. xxviii.
20.
2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
protracted; as, short breath.
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
--Chaucer.
To short absense I could yield. --Milton.
3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
a short supply of provisions, or of water.
4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily
furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the
ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of
money.
We shall be short in our provision. --Shak.
5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
trith.
6. Not distant in time; near at hand.
Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence
should be so short. --Spenser.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
to be ready by a short day. --Clarendon.
7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Their own short understandings reach No farther than
the present. --Rowe.
8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
them again to war. --Landor.
9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
answer to the question.
10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
crisp; as, short pastry.
11. (Metal) Brittle.
Note: Metals that are brittle when hot are called ?ot-short;
as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence
of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called
cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account
of the presence of phosphorus.
12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is
not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock.
See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short,
under Short, adv.
Note: In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes
made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time
after being presented to the payer.
13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in
utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or
to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same
letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the
same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of
i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the
short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide
to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]22, 30.
Note: Short is much used with participles to form numerous
self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed,
short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired,
short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed,
short-winged, short-wooled, etc.
At short notice, in a brief time; promptly.
Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs.
Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or
less than three. --R. A. Proctor.
To come short, To cut short, To fall short, etc. See
under Come, Cut, etc. Snorter
Snorter Snort"er, n.
1. One who snorts.
2. (Zo["o]l.) The wheather; -- so called from its cry. [Prov.
Eng.]
Sorter
Sorter Sort"er, n.
One who, or that which, sorts.
Sporter
Sporter Sport"er, n.
One who sports; a sportsman.
As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters,
I have a frienship for him. --Goldsmith.
Supporter
Supporter Sup*port"er, n.
1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a
supporter of life.
The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured.
--Bacon.
The saints have a . . . supporter in all their
miseries. --South.
2. Especially, an adherent; one who sustains, advocates, and
defends; as, the supporter of a party, faction, or
candidate.
3. (Shipbuilding) A knee placed under the cathead.
4. (Her.) A figure, sometimes of a man, but commonly of some
animal, placed on either side of an escutcheon, and
exterior to it. Usually, both supporters of an escutcheon
are similar figures.
5. (Med.) A broad band or truss for supporting the abdomen or
some other part or organ.
Supporter of combustionCombustion Com*bus"tion (?; 106), n. [L. combustio: cf. F.
combustion.]
1. The state of burning.
2. (Chem.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter
of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light
and heat.
Combustion results in common cases from the mutual
chemical action and reaction of the combustible and
the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound
is formed. --Ure.
Supporter of combustion (Chem.), a gas, as oxygen, the
combination of which with a combustible, as coal,
constitutes combustion.
3. Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. [Obs.]
There [were] great combustions and divisions among
the heads of the university. --Mede.
But say from whence this new combustion springs.
--Dryden. Transporter
Transporter Trans*port"er, n.
One who transports.
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