Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p.
pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [F. transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port
bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
--Hakluyt.
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2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
criminal; to banish.
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3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
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[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion. --Milton.
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We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South.
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