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v. t. & i. See Disport. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. desport, deport. See Disport, v. i., and cf. Sport. ] Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disported; p. pr. & vb. n. Disporting. ] [ OF. se desporter; pref. des- (L. dis-) + F. porter to carry; orig. therefore, to carry one's self away from work, to go to amuse one's self. See Port demeanor, and cf. Sport. ] To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun,
Disporting there like any other fly. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. desporter. See Disport, v. i. ] 1. To divert or amuse; to make merry. [ 1913 Webster ]

They could disport themselves. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To remove from a port; to carry away. Prynne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of disporting; diversion; play. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in sporting. [ R. ] “Not to outsport discretion.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. passeport, orig., a permission to leave a port or to sail into it; passer to pass + port a port, harbor. See Pass, and Port a harbor. ] 1. Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

His passport is his innocence and grace. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbreviated from disport. ] 1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is as sport to a fool to do mischief. Prov. x. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Think it but a minute spent in sport. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions. John Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Play; idle jingle. [ 1913 Webster ]

An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Bot. & Zool.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A sportsman; a gambler. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. “So is the man that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in sport?” Prov. xxvi. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery; jeer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n. Sporting. ] 1. To play; to frolic; to wanton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Fish ], sporting with quick glance,
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To trifle. “He sports with his own life.” Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot. & Zool.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To play; frolic; game; wanton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Isa. lvii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To represent by any kind of play. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage. [ Colloq. ] Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams. [ R. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sportiveness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. [ R. ] “Sportal arms.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sports; a sportsman. [ 1913 Webster ]

As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a friendship for him. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. [ 1913 Webster ]

They are no sportful productions of the soil. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sport"ful*ly, adv. -- Sport"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sports; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. --
Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. --
Sporting man, one who practices field sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like. --
Sporting plant (Bot.), a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In sport; sportively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending to, engaged in, or provocative of, sport; gay; frolicsome; playful; merry. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is it I
That drive thee from the sportive court? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without sport or mirth; joyless. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. [ 1913 Webster ]

When again the lambkins play --
Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.;pl. Sportsmen One who pursues the sports of the field; one who hunts, fishes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of sportsmen; skill in field sports. [ 1913 Webster ]

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‖n.; pl. Sportulae [ L. ] A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. [ 1913 Webster ]

To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Subsisting on alms or charitable contributions. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sportula a little basket, a gift, dim. of sporta a basket: cf. F. sportule. ] A charitable gift or contribution; a gift; an alms; a dole; a largess; a sportula. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting. ] [ F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor. ] 1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ They ] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See Transport, v. ] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. [ 1913 Webster ]

With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. Doddridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being transportable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. transportable. ] 1. Capable of being transported. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. “The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds.” Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Transportation. [ Obs. ] “Give me swift transportance.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Transporting; &unr_;avishing; as, transportant love. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. transportatio: cf. F. transportation. ] 1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance. [ 1913 Webster ]

To provide a vessel for their transportation. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Transport; ecstasy. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who transports. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That transports; fig., ravishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to transport. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; transportation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]