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Porphyrogenitism – Porter

Porphyrogenitism

the principle of succession in royal families, and especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by virtue of which a younger son, if born "in the purple" that is, after parents to the throne, was preferred to an older son born previous to such succession.

Porphyry

a term originally applied to a rock having a purple colored base, with inclosed individual crystals of a feldspar. Any rock in which crystals of feldspar are individually developed, of the mineralogical composition of the whole, is said to be poryhyritic.

Port

a species of red wine, produced Portugal, and shipped from Oporto.

After the juice has been pressed from the grape, and fermentation fairly started, a certain quantity of spirit is added to impede the process, so as to re- PORT tain in the liquid some of the saccharine matter, as well as the flavor of the grape.

Port

a framed opening in a ship's side through which a gun is fired, a hawser passed out, or cargo passed in or out. They are known by various names, as cargo port, gun port, etc.

Portal Circulation

a subordinnate circulation of blood from the stomach and intestines through the liver.

Portalis

JEAN ETIENNE MARIE, a French jurist; born in Provence, April 1, 1745; practiced law in Paris, was imprisoned and prosecuted during the Revolution, but under Napoleon was the chief author of the famous "Civil Code." He died in Paris, Aug. 25, 1807.

PORTER

Port Breton

a name given to the S. E. part of New Ireland, the scene in 1879 of a disastrous experiment in colonizing by a company of French Legitimists. The Marquis Du Rays, who floated the company, and his associates were condemned to various terms of imprisonment (1883) for fraud and raising money on false pretenses.

Portal Vein

a vein about three framework of timber, hung in grooves PORTCULLIS, a strong defensive inches long, commencing at the junction of the splenic and superior mesenteric veins and passing upward a little to the right to reach the transverse fissure of the liver.

Port Arthur

the terminus of the E. division of the Canadian Pacific railway, on Thunder Bay, an arm of Lake Superior, 993 miles W. N. W. of Montreal.

Porte

OTTOMAN, or SUBLIME

Porte

the common term for the Turkish Government. The chief office of the Ottoman empire is styled Babi Ali, literally, the High Gate, from the gate (bab) of the palace at which justice was administered; and the French translation of this term being Sublime Porte, hence the use of this word.

Porter

ROBERT P., an American statistician; born in Norfolk, England, Jan. 30, 1852; settled in the United States in 1867, and soon afterward engaged in journalism. He was appointed United States commissioner to Cuba and Porto Rico in 1898-1899. Died 1917.