Portion

1. n. A wife’s fortune; a dowry.
2. n. That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
3. n. A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
4. n. A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
5. n. The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.