Portlandn.

1633 N. Stone Note-bk. (1919) 95 On Chemney of Portland Stone carved and inlayed with marble.

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 120 These figured Bodies were of very different Substances as to hardness..some soft Stone..others as hard as Portland Stone.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1666 (1955) III. 459 All the ornaments, Columns, freezes, Capitels & proje[c]tures of massie Portland stone flew off.

a1720 J. Sheffield Wks. (1729) II. 258 Each step of one entire Portland-stone.

1755 J. G. Cooper Lett. conc. Taste 64 The House itself, 'tis true, is built with good Portland Stone.

1851 G. Borrow Lavengro xciv Lunatic-looking erections, in what the simpletons call the modern Gothic taste, of Portland-stone.

1898 J. M. Falkner Moonfleet (1970) i. 13 I stepped in and held the lantern watching him chink out the bits of Portland stone with a graver.

1944 W. Morgan in R. Greenhalgh Pract. Builder ix. 304/1 Limestones.., with the exception of a few notable types such as Portland stone, do not stand up so well..to the smoke-polluted atmosphere of town.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! x. 96/1 Chandos Street fire station..had been replaced by the new and handsome Great Scotland Yard station, with its Portland stone facings.

1814 T. Webster in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 166 A part of the series..is as follows, beginning with the uppermost. 1. Alluvium... 13. Portland oolite. 14. Clay with limestone..containing the Kimeridge coal.

1877 Times 17 Nov. 7/6 At Portisham there is a deposit of Purbeck stone and Portland oolite of about 100ft. in thickness.

1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) 75 The rocks are harder than chalk—they afford some of England's finest building stones such as the Bath and Portland Oolites.

1824 J. Aspdin Specif. Patent 5022 An improvement in..artificial stone..which I call Portland cement.

1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden p. lxiii/1 A more perfect bog garden is made by forming a basin of brickwork and Portland cement, about one foot in depth.

1928 Plastering Craft 15 Jan. 11/2 Other buildings should be remodeled or ‘overcoated’ with white Portland cement stucco.

1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) xvi. 188 Pennsylvanian limestone and shale are much used in making Portland cement..in the eastern United States.

2002 P. Raines Simple Stonescaping (2003) iii. 30 Masonry cement is portland cement and lime in specific ratios noted by a grading system.

1829 T. Webster in Trans. Geol. Soc. 2 37 (title) Observations on the Purbeck and Portland beds.

1877 H. A. Nicholson Anc. Life-hist. Earth (1878) xvi. 227 The Portland Beds..succeed the Kimmeridge clay.

1922 Mind 124 449 Fossils, Jurassic fauna, shells peculiar to the Portland beds, and so on, are the concepts through which a geologist works out the geological history of a valley.

1981 Palaeontology 24 863 (title) Bryozoa from the Jurassic Portland beds of England.

1836 W. H. Fitton in Trans. Geol. Soc. 4 210 Portland sand.—I propose to give this name to a group of strata..beneath the equivalent of the Portland stone..and which in the interior contains a large proportion of sand.

1885 A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 2) 798 The Upper or Portland Oolites..are divisible into three groups: (1) Kimmeridgian, at the base; (2) Portlandian... This group, resting directly on the Kimmeridge clay, consists of two divisions, the Portland Sand and Portland Stone.

1952 Trans. & Papers Inst. Brit. Geographers. No. 18. 25 The ridge is a compound feature, caused,..in the west, by a resistant cementstone in the upper middle part of the Portland Sand.

2000 Oxoniensia 64 133 Some Group 2 fabrics may contain Ferruginous (Portland) sands which outcrop 2 km. to the NE. on Nuneham Rise.

1849 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Portland beds, or Portland limestone, a series of calcareous strata belonging to the upper part of the Oolite formation, found chiefly..in the Isle of Portland.

1911 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 84 472 It was found growing on London clay, on chalk, on Purbeck and Portland limestone and on Kimmeridge clay.

2000 Britannia 31 433 Identified..as a shelly Upper Jurassic limestone, probably Portland Limestone rather than Purbeck.

1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 282 Small Portland Spurge. Tithymalus maritimus minor Portlandicus.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 449 Portland spurge. Sandy sea shores. On the neck of land joining Portland to Dorsetshire.

1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 277 Euphorbia Portlandica, Portland Spurge, grows in considerable abundance among the rocks immediately over the Bar.

1924 W. H. Fitch et al. Illustr. Brit. Flora (ed. 5) 223 Euphorbia segetalis L. Portland spurge.

2004 Herald Express (Torquay) (Nexis) 1 June 9 The SSSI is rich in wild flowers from the bluebells in the woods to Portland Spurge, small hare's ear..and that lovely little national rarity, the white rock rose.

1829 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants 800 In the Isle of Portland, where the plant is very abundant, the roots are generally eaten by the country people; they are macerated, steeped, and the powder so obtained is dried and sent to London, and sold under the name of Portland sago.

1931 M. Grieve Mod. Herbal I. 237/1 This starch of the root, after repeated washing, makes a kind of arrowroot, formerly much prepared in the Isle of Portland, and sold as an article of food under the name of Portland Sago, or Portland Arrowroot, but now obsolete.

1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 386/1 The baked and ground roots of lords-and-ladies were once in demand as a home-grown substitute for arrowroot (normally from the West Indian species Maranta arundinacea), under the name of Portland sago.

1855 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., Dental Surg., & Collateral Sci. (ed. 2) 605/1 Portland Sago, Portland arrow-root, a fecula prepared from Arum maculatum in the island of Portland.

1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 97/1 From the tubers of this plant [sc. Arum maculatum]..a starch called Portland Arrowroot was formerly..prepared.

1960 C. T. Prime Lords & Ladies v. 51 Did it [sc. a pudding], one wonders, contain Portland arrowroot?

1996 Chiltern Seeds Catal. 27 Lords-and-Ladies. Cuckoo Pint. A well-known and somewhat fascinating native wild flower with a purple spadix sticking up inside the pale yellow-green spathe... A starch called Portland Arrowroot is made from the roots.