Definition of portion

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Portion (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.

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Peripheral :: Peripheral (a.) External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion of the nervous system..
Heeltap :: Heeltap (n.) A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking.
Propodium :: Propodium (n.) The anterior portion of the foot of a mollusk.
Stenting :: Stent (n.) An allotted portion; a stint.
Alcove :: Alcove (n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library..
Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..
Spontaneous :: Spontaneous (a.) Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion..
Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) The rule for dividing profit and loss among partners; -- called also partnership, company, and distributive proportion..
Olive :: Olive (n.) One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion..
Analogy :: Analogy (n.) Proportion; equality of ratios.
Verse :: Verse (n.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
Solid :: Solid (a.) Impenetrable; resisting or excluding any other material particle or atom from any given portion of space; -- applied to the supposed ultimate particles of matter.
Proportion :: Proportion (n.) A part considered comparatively; a share.
Portion :: Portion (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole..
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Quantum :: Quantum (n.) A definite portion of a manifoldness, limited by a mark or by a boundary..
Proportionateness :: Proportionateness (n.) The quality or state of being proportionate.
Estrade :: Estrade (n.) A portion of the floor of a room raised above the general level, as a place for a bed or a throne; a platform; a dais..
Capital :: Capital (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production..
Some :: Some (a.) A part; a portion; -- used pronominally, and followed sometimes by of; as, some of our provisions..
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