Portable, 1) such as may be carried from place to place: “like an engine not p.” Troil. II, 3, 144.
2) sufferable: “all these are p., with other graces weighed,” Mcb. IV, 3, 89. “how light and p. my pain seems now,” Lr. III, 6, 115.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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