n. [ L. asportatio, fr. asportare to carry away; abs = ab + portare to bear, carry. ] (Law) The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is adjudged to be larceny, though the goods are not carried from the house or apartment. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

‖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 ]

[ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
See pacific.
See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
See pardonable.
See partable.
See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
See patriotic.
See peaceable.
See peaceful.
See pedantic.
See perceivable.
See perceptible.
See perilous.
See permanent.
See personable.
See perspirable.
See persuadable.
See persuasive.
See philanthropic.
See philosophic.
See philosophical.
See physical.
See picturesque.
See pierceable.
See pitiful.
See plain.
See plausible.
See plausive.
See pleadable.
See pleasurable.
See pliable.
See pliant.
See plumb.
See poetic.
See poetical.
See political.
See popular.
See populous.
See portable.
See potable.
See precarious.
See precise.
See pregnant.
See prejudicate.
See prelatical.
See premeditable.
See presentable.
See preservable.
See presumptuous.
See pretentious.
See pretty.
See prevalent.
See priestly.
See primitive.
See princely.
See procurable.
See producible.
See productive.
See professional.
See profitable.
See prolific.
See pronounceable.
See prophetic.
See propitious.
See proportionable.
See proportionate.
See prosperous.
See provable.
See punctilious.
See punctual.
See punishable.
See pure.
See qualifiable.
See quenchable.
See quiet.
See rational.
See readable.
See reasonable.
See recallable.
See reclaimable.
See recognizable.
See reconcilable.
See recoverable.
See recumbent.
See reformable.
See refusable.
See regardable.
See regardant.
See relative.
See relievable.
See reluctant.
See remarkable.
See remediable.
See rememberable.
See remorseful.
See removable.
See remunerative.
See repairable.
See repealable.
See repentant.
See reprovable.
See repugnant.
See requisite.
See requitable.
See resolvable.
See respectable.
See restful.
See retentive.
See returnable.
See revengeful.
See ridable.
See ridiculous.
See rightful.
See romantic.
See rough.
See royal.
See ruinable.
See ruly.
See sacrificial.
See safe.
See sage.
See sailable.
See salable.
See sane.
See sanguine.
See sanitary.
See satisfactory.
See satisfiable.
See saturable.
See savory.
See scalable.
See scaly.
See scholarly.
See scholastic.
See scientific.
See scornful.
See scriptural.
See sculptural.
See seaworthy.
See sectarian.
See secular.
See sedentary.
See selfish.
See sentient.
See sentimental.
See serviceable.
See severe.
See shamefaced.
See shamefast.
See shapely.
See shy.
See sick.
See sicker.
See sightly.
See simple.
See sinewy.
See sizable.
See sleek.
See slumberous.
See sly.
See smooth.
See smotherable.
See smutty.
See sober.
See sociable.
See social.
See solemn.
See soliciutous.
See solvable.
See speakable.
See speedy.
See spiritual.
See spontaneous.
See sportful.
See sportsmanlike.
See statutable.
See steadfast.
See steady.
See stormy.
See stout.
See strong.
See subduable.
See subject.
See submissive.
See subordinate.
See substantial.
See successive.
See succorable.
See suggestive.
See suitable.
See sunny.
See superfluous.
See supple.
See sure.
See surpassable.
See susceptible.
See suspect.
See suspectable.
See suspicious.
See sustainable.
See sweet.
See syllogistical.
See symbolic.
See sympathetic.
See systematic.
See tamable.
See tame.
See teachable.
See technical.
See tellable.
See tenable.
See tender.
See terrestrial.
See terrific.
See thankful.
See theological.
See thinkable.
See thirsty.
See thorny.
See thoughtful.
See tidy.
See tillable.
See toothsome.
See touchable.
See traceable.
See tractable.
See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
See translatable.
See transmutable.
See transparent.
See transpassable.
See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
See usable.
See useful.
See vanquishable.
See variant.
See venerable.
See venomous.
See veracious.
See verdant.
See veritable.
See vigilant.
See vigorous.
See virtuous.
See vital.
See vitrifiable.
See vocal.
See voidable.
See voluptuous.
See voyageable.
See vulgar.
See walkable.
See warlike.
See watchful.
See watery.
See wealthy.
See wearable.
See weary.
See welcome.
See wet.
See wholesome.
See wieldsome.
See willful.
See wily.
See witty.
See womanly.
See workable.
See workmanlike.
See worldly.
See worshipful.
See wrathful.
See writable.
See zealous.
------ and the like.
[ 1913 Webster ]