port 2 (both senses are freq. 16th-17th cent.)
1.
bearing,
carriage, demeanour
H5 I. Chor. 6
“Assume the port of
Mars,”
2H6 IV. i. 19, Ant. IV. xii. [xiv.] 52 “with
our sprightly port.”
2.
style of living,
state, social station Mer.V. I. i.
125,
III. ii. 282
“the magnificoes Of
greatest port,”
Shr. I. i. 207
“Keep house and
port.”
