Three books of porisms of Euclid have been lost, but several attempts
to determine the nature of these propositions and to restore them have
been made by modern geometers.
{ Po`ris*mat"ic (?), Po`ris*mat"ic*al (?), } a. Of or pertaining to a
porism; poristic.
{ Po*ris"tic (?), Po*ris"tic*al (?), } a.[Gr. &?; for providing, &?;
provided.] Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.
Po"rite (?), n. [Cf. F. porite. See Pore, n.] (Zoˆl.) Any coral of the
genus Porites, or family PoritidÊ.
||Po*ri"tes (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. po`ros a pore.] (Zoˆl.) An important
||genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and
||a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large
||massive or globular forms.
Pork (?), n. [F. porc, L. porcus hog, pig. See Farrow a litter of pigs,
and cf. Porcelain, Porpoise.] The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used
for food.
Pork"er (?), n. A hog. Pope.
Pork"et (?), n. [Dim. of F. porc. See Pork.] A young hog; a pig. [R.]
Dryden. W. Howitt.
Pork"ling (?), n. A pig; a porket. Tusser.
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.
Por`ne*ras"tic (?), a. [Gr. &?; harlot + &?; to love.] Lascivious;
licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.
Por`no*graph"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious;
licentious; as, pornographic writing.
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.