Adjective

(er)

Somewhat fat, pudgy, overweight.

* 1824 , , Tales of a Traveller , Introduction:

Indeed, the poor man has grown ten times as nervous as ever, since he has discovered, on such good authority, who the stout gentleman was. . . . He has anxiously endeavored to call up a recollection of what he saw of that portly personage; and has ever since kept a curious eye on all gentlemen of more than ordinary dimensions.

* 1913 , , The Little Nugget , ch. 14:

His portly middle section, rising beyond like a small hill, heaved rhythmically.

* 2011 July 6, Nick Carbone, " Top 10 Worst Fictional Camp Counselors," Time (retrieved 8 May 2014):

In Heavyweights , Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is a fitness guru who installs himself as the über-buff leader of Camp Hope, with the goal of helping portly youngsters shed their saggy stomachs and thunder thighs.

*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:

*:Portly his person was, and much increast

Through his Heroicke grace and honourable gest.

* 1728 , , "A Dialogue between Mad Mullinix and Timothy":

Be studious well to imitate

My portly motion, mien, and gait

Adjective

(er)

Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.

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(obsolete) Abundant; ample.

* Milton

We have yet large day.

(archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.

* Felton

I might be very large upon the importance and advantages of education.

(obsolete) Free; unencumbered.

* Fairfax

Of burdens all he set the Paynims large .

(obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.

* Shakespeare

Some large jests he will make.

(nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.