Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.]
   1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

            The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
            to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.

   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}.

   3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

            With transport views the airy rule his own, And
            swells on an imaginary throne.        --Pope.

            Say not, in transports of despair, That all your
            hopes are fled.                       --Doddridge.

   4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.