PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession.   His light estate, if neither he did make it  Nor yet its former guardian forsake it,  Is portable improperly, I take it.               Worgum Slupsky. -Ambrose Bierce

 

PORTABLE, adj. Exposed to a mutable ownership through vicissitudes of possession. His light estate, if neither he did make it Nor yet its former guardian forsake it, Is portable improperly, I take it. Worgum Slupsky.


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