Porkling
(Pork"ling) n. A pig; a porket. Tusser.
Porkwood
(Pork"wood`) n. (Bot.) The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia
obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
Pornerastic
(Por`ne*ras"tic) a. [Gr. harlot + to love.] Lascivious; licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.
Pornographic
(Por`no*graph"ic) a. Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic
writing.
Pornography
(Por*nog"ra*phy) n. [Gr. a harlot + -graphy.]
1. Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of
rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
2. (Med.) A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
Porosity
(Po*ros"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. porosité.] The quality or state of being porous; — opposed to density.
Porotic
(Po*rot"ic) n. (Med.) A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
Porous
(Por"ous) a. [Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n.] Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in
the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous
skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.
Porously
(Por"ous*ly), adv. In a porous manner.
Porousness
(Por"ous*ness), n.
1. The quality of being porous.
2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. [R.]
They will forcibly get into the porousness of it.
Sir K. Digby. Porpentine
(Por"pen*tine) n. Porcupine. [Obs.] Shak.
Porpesse
(Por"pesse) n. A porpoise. [Obs.]
Porphyraceous
(Por`phy*ra"ceous) a. Porphyritic.
Porphyre
(Por"phyre) n. Porphyry. [Obs.] Locke.
Porphyrite
(Por"phy*rite) n. (Min.) A rock with a porphyritic structure; as, augite porphyrite.
Porphyritic
(Por`phy*rit"ic) a. [Cf. F. porphyritique.] (Min.) Relating to, or resembling, porphyry, that
is, characterized by the presence of distinct crystals, as of feldspar, quartz, or augite, in a relatively fine-
grained base, often aphanitic or cryptocrystalline.
Porphyrization
(Por`phy*ri*za"tion) n. The act of porphyrizing, or the state of being porphyrized.
Porphyrize
(Por`phy*rize) v. t. [Cf. F. porphyriser, Gr. to purplish.] To cause to resemble porphyry; to
make spotted in composition, like porphyry.
Porphyrogenitism
(Por`phy*ro*gen"i*tism) n. [LL. porphyro genitus, fr. Gr. purple + root of to be born.]
The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which
