Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for POR'PITE, or POR'PITES
POR'PITE, or POR'PITES, n.
The hair-button-stone, a small species of fossil coral of a roundish figure, flattened and striated from the center to the circumference; found immersed in stone. – Encyc.
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