Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
   1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
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            The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
            to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for
      carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one
      place to another, or to convey convicts to their
      destination; -- called also transport ship, transport
      vessel.
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   3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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            With transport views the airy rule his own,
            And swells on an imaginary throne.    --Pope.
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            Say not, in transports of despair,
            That all your hopes are fled.         --Doddridge.
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   4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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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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