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Webster 1913 Edition

Transport

Trans-port′

,
Verb.
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.

Trans′port

,
Noun.
[F. See
Transport
,
Verb.
]
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Transport

TRANSPORT

,
Verb.
T.
[L. transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]
1.
To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.
2.
To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes,which often amounts to banishment.
3.
To hurry or carry away by violence of passion.
They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion.
4.
To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy.
5.
To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors.

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