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Porgies
- noun - important deep-bodied food and sport fish of warm and tropical coastal waters; found worldwide
- lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern Atlantic coast of the United States
Porkies
- unknown - uk slang for lies (rhyming slang: pork pies - lies)
Porpita
- - A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
Portico
- noun - a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
Porting
- verb - bring to port; "the captain ported the ship at night"
- carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons; "port a rifle"
- carry, bear, convey, or bring; "The small canoe could be ported easily"
- drink port; "We were porting all in the club after dinner"
- land at or reach a port; "The ship finally ported"
- modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
- put or turn on the left side, of a ship; "port the helm"
- turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship; "The big ship was slowly porting"
Portion
- noun - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group;
- give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
- money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- something determined in relation to something that includes it; "he wanted to feel a part of something bigger than himself"; "I read a portion of the manuscript"; "the smaller component is hard to reach"; "the animal constituent of plankton"
- something less than the whole of a human artifact; "the rear part of the house"; "glue the two parts together"
- the allotment of some amount by dividing something;
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Purfile
- - A sort of ancient trimming of tinsel and thread for women's gowns; -- called also bobbinwork.
Purging
- verb -
- an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements
- clear of a charge
- excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body); "The doctor decided that the patient must be purged"
- make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
- oust politically; "Deng Xiao Ping was purged several times throughout his lifetime"
- rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"
- rinse, clean, or empty with a liquid; "flush the wound with antibiotics"; "purge the old gas tank"
- serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites"
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
Purlieu
- noun - an outer adjacent area of any place