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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Transport

Trans-pōrt', v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. TRANSPORTED; p. pr. & vb. n. TRANSPORTING.] [Fr. transporter, Pr. & Sp. transportar, trasportar, It. transportare, trasportare, Lat. transportare, from trans, across, and portare, to carry.]

Sense 1. To carry or convey from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.

Sense 2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal.

Sense 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, either of joy or sorrow, of complacency or anger, and the like; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy.

They laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. Milton.

We shall then be transported with a nobler kind of wonder. South.

Trāns'pôrt, n.

noun

n. [Fr. & Pr. transport, Sp. transporte, trasporte, It. trasporto.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.

  1. A ship or vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.
  2. 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.