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Definition of porporino in English English dictionary
- A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediæval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold
- The quality or state of
- Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood
- A young hog; a pig
- The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies
- A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution
- Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies
- A pig; a porket
- Lascivious; licentious
- Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing