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Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
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The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot.
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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}.
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3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.
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Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
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4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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