Trans"port (?), n. [F. See Transport, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
Arbuthnot.
2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike
stores, or provisions, from one place to
another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also
transport ship,
transport vessel.
3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views
the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne.
Pope. Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your
hopes are fled.
Doddridge. 4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Trans*port" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p.
pr. & vb. n. Transporting.]
[F.
transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.] 1. To carry or bear from one
place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to
transport goods;
to transport
troops. Hakluyt.
2. To carry, or cause to be
carried, into banishment,
as a criminal; to banish.
3. To carry away
with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of
passion.
Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.
South.
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