Meaning: Any of several small gregarious cetacean mammals having a blunt snout and many teeth. Classified under: Nouns denoting animals. Hypernyms (porpoise is a kind of...): dolphin (any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of porpoise): harbor porpoise; herring hog; Phocaena phocaena (the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific)
12 Angry Men (1957). The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
American Indian Inmates of the U.S. Army on the Rock. On January 4, 1895, the San Francisco Call published a story under the headline A Batch of Apaches.. The article stated, Nineteen murderous-looking Apache Indians were landed at Alcatraz island yesterday morning.. The article misidentified the 19 Hopi men who had been arrested at Orayvi the previous November.