Definition of portion

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Portion (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.

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Overproportion :: Overproportion (v. t.) To make of too great proportion.
Spine :: Spindling (a.) Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy..
Dose :: Dose (n.) Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one.
Dividend :: Dividend (n.) A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate..
Clean-timbered :: Clean-timbered (a.) Well-proportioned; symmetrical.
Proportionably :: Proportionably (adv.) Proportionally.
Geography :: Geography (n.) The science which treats of the world and its inhabitants; a description of the earth, or a portion of the earth, including its structure, fetures, products, political divisions, and the people by whom it is inhabited..
Ground :: Ground (n.) The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it..
Postcomminion :: Postcomminion (n.) The concluding portion of the communion service.
Population :: Population (n.) The whole number of people, or inhabitants, in a country, or portion of a country; as, a population of ten millions..
Hound :: Hound (n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.
Pseudocarp :: Pseudocarp (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig..
Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.
Harmonious :: Harmonious (a.) Adapted to each other; having parts proportioned to each other; symmetrical.
Lesson :: Lesson (n.) Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time..
Peptone :: Peptone (n.) The soluble and diffusible substance or substances into which albuminous portions of the food are transformed by the action of the gastric and pancreatic juices. Peptones are also formed from albuminous matter by the action of boiling water and boiling dilute acids.
Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc..
Disproportionable :: Disproportionable (a.) Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate..
Craniology :: Craniology (n.) The department of science (as of ethnology or archaeology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls..
Font :: Font (n.) A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount..
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