These are the meanings of the letters PORTADO when you unscramble them.
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Adopt (v. t.)
To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.
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Adopt (v. t.)
To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally; to select and take or approve; as, to adopt the view or policy of another; these resolutions were adopted.
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Aport (adv.)
On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.
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Droop (n.)
A drooping; as, a droop of the eye.
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Droop (v. i.)
To grow weak or faint with disappointment, grief, or like causes; to be dispirited or depressed; to languish; as, her spirits drooped.
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Droop (v. i.)
To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.
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Droop (v. i.)
To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
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Droop (v. t.)
To let droop or sink.
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Dropt ()
imp. & p. p. of Drop, v.
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Dropt ()
of Drop
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Tardo (a.)
Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.
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Tardo (n.)
A sloth.
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Troop (n.)
A collection of people; a company; a number; a multitude.
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Troop (n.)
A company of stageplayers; a troupe.
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Troop (n.)
A particular roll of the drum; a quick march.
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Troop (n.)
Soldiers, collectively; an army; -- now generally used in the plural.
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Troop (n.)
Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, or dragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.
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Troop (v. i.)
To march on; to go forward in haste.
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Troop (v. i.)
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.