The Collaborative International Dictionary
Porpentine \Por"pen*tine\, n.
Porcupine. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) porcupine
Wikipedia
Porpentine is an archaic term for a porcupine. It may also refer to:
- Porpentine (game designer)
- The Porpentine, an inn in William Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors
- Porpentine, a fictional character in Thomas Pynchon's spy novella "Under the Rose"
- The Porpentine, a magical jewel in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel The Sandman: A Game of You
- Frederico the Porpentine, a fictional character in Dan Wickenden's children's fantasy novel The Amazing Vacation
Porpentine Charity Heartscape is a video game designer, writer and curator. She is primarily a developer of hypertext games and interactive fiction. Her work falls under the category of new media art and has been exhibited around the world. She was an editor for freeindiegam.es, the now-retired curated collection of free, independently produced games. She was a columnist for online PC gaming magazine Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Usage examples of "porpentine".
Porpentine wedged one foot between the balusters and looked down, surveying rapidly the faces below.
Runkle, the mere sight of whom, circs being what they were, was enough to freeze the blood and make each particular hair stand on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine, as I have heard Jeeves put it.
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, / And each particular hair to stand on end, / Like quills upon the fretful porpentine:.
Wing in on the wind to every beggar, vagrant, exile-by-choice and peregrine-at-large in Alex that the team of Porpentine & Goodfellow plus the Wren sisters were sitting at a table in the Fink.