Word Meanings - PORTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who has charge of a door or gate; a doorkeeper; one who waits at the door to receive messages. Shak. To him the porter openeth. John x. 3.

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• RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
  An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• RECEIVE
  To bat back when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service. Syn. -- To accept; take; allow; hold; retain; admit. -- Receive, Accept. To receive describes simply the act
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• PORTERESS
  See PORTRESS
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• PORTERHOUSE
  A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part.
• PORTER
  A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled is hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• DOORKEEPER
  One who guards the entrance of a house or apartment; a porter; a janitor.
• RECEIVEDNESS
  The state or quality of being received, accepted, or current; as, the receivedness of an opinion. Boyle.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• RECEIVERSHIP
  The state or office of a receiver.
• CHARGEABLY
  At great cost; expensively.
• CHARGER
  1. One who, or that which charges. 2. An instrument for measuring or inserting a charge. 3. A large dish. Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Matt. xiv. 8. 4. A horse for battle or parade. Macaulay. And furious every charger neighed.
• CHARGEFUL
  Costly; expensive. The fineness of the gold and chargeful fashion. Shak.
• PORTERAGE
  1. The work of a porter; the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper. 2. Money charged or paid for the carriage of burdens or parcels by a porter.
• RECEIVER
  A person appointed, ordinarily by a court, to receive, and hold in trust, money or other property which is the subject of litigation, pending the suit; a person appointed to take charge of the estate and effects of a corporation, and to do other
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• MISRECEIVE
  To receive wrongly.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• RECHARGE
  1. To charge or accuse in return. 2. To attack again; to attack anew. Dryden.
• SURCHARGER
  One who surcharges.