Trans*port" (?), v. 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.
© Webster 1913.
Trans"port (?), 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.
© Webster 1913.