p. pr.
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.
transport (?), 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.
