*transport*

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 ]