Porter, Jane

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• Porter

  ·noun A carrier; one who carries or conveys burdens, luggage, ·etc.; for hire. II. Porter ·noun A m...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Porter

  A gate-keeper (2 Sam. 18:26; 2 Kings 7:10; 1 Chr. 9:21; 2 Chr. 8:14). Of the Levites, 4,000 were app...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Porter

  This word when used in the Authorized Version does not bear its modern signification of a carrier of...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Jane

  ·noun A coin of Genoa; any small coin. II. Jane ·noun A kind of twilled cotton cloth. ·see <<Jean>>...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Austen, Jane

  (1775-1817) Novelist, dau. of a clergyman, was b. at the rectory of Steventon near Basingstoke. She...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Porter, Anna Maria

  (1780-1832), Porter, Jane (1776-1850) Novelists, were the dau. of an Irish army surgeon, and sister...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Jane-of-apes

  ·noun A silly, pert girl; — corresponding to jackanapes. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Findlater, Jane Helen

  Novelist. Green Graves of Balgowrie, A Daughter of Strife, Rachel, Tales that are Told (with Mary Fi...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Harrison, Miss Jane Ellen

  LL.D., etc. (b. 1850) Writer on Greek art and religion. Myths of the Odyssey in Art and Literature...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin