An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise impracticable barrier; a passageway; a defile; a ford; as, a mountain pass.
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A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.
Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
The quality of being passable.
Tolerably; moderately.
An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
A pass or thrust.
The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
A passenger; a bird or boat of passage.
A way for passage; a hall. See Passage, 5.
Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
Past; gone by; hence, past one's prime; worn; faded; as, a pass/e belle.
A ridge or projecting edge on a shoulder piece to turn the blow of a lance or other weapon from the joint of the armor.
Lace, gimp, braid etc., sewed on a garment.
Trimmings, esp. of braids, cords, gimps, beads, or tinsel.
A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
One who passes; a passenger.
One who passes by, especially casually or by chance; one not directly involved in some action; a passer.
An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.
Like or belonging to the Passeres.
The largest order of birds comprising about half the known species: rooks; finches; sparrows; tits; warblers; robins; wrens; swallows; etc.; in four suborders: Eurylaimi; Tyranni; Menurae; Oscines or Passeres.
A genus of small North American bush-loving finches; the New World buntings.
One of the Passeres.
The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Passibility.
A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passiflore/, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
A natural family of tropical woody tendril-climbing vines.
Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.
Exceedingly.
To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. A passionary.
A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
To affect with passion; to impassion.
In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
The state or quality of being passionate.
A member of a religious order founded in Italy in 1737, and introduced into the United States in 1852. The members of the order unite the austerities of the Trappists with the activity and zeal of the Jesuits and Lazarists. Called also Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross.
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
The last fortnight of Lent.
Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable; hence, the principle of passive resistance.
Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
Having no pass; impassable.
One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water.
A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
See Paspy.
By; beyond; as, he ran past.
Any of a variety of edible unleavened doughey preparations made from flour, eggs and water, originating in Italy, and shaped into various forms, such as solid strings (as spaghetti), hollow tubes, or layered squares (ravioli). They may be mixed with various sauces, often having a tomato base, or filled with meat or cheese fillings.
To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
A composition of a flat object on a board or other backing; as, they showed him a paste-up of the book jacket.
A stiff thick kind of paper board, formed of several single sheets pasted one upon another, or of paper macerated and pressed into molds, etc.
Affixed with glue or paste.
A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.
The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.
An acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection.
Of or pertaining to Louis Pasteur.
A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
A process devised by Pasteur for preventing or checking fermentation in fluids, such as wines, milk, etc., by exposure to a temperature of 140/ F., thus destroying the vitality of the contained microorganisms.
To subject to pasteurization.
One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating and agitating, fluid.
A medley; an olio.
A pair of adhesive patches worn to cover the nipples of exotic dancers and striptease performers.
A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.
To sport; to amuse one's self.
A genus comprising the parsnips.
An anise-based liqueur similar to absinthe but yellowish in color and containing no wormwood.
The quality of being past.
A shepherd; one who has the care of flocks and herds.
The office, jurisdiction, or duty, of a pastor; pastorate.
A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.
In a pastoral or rural manner.
The office, state, or jurisdiction of a pastor.
A parsonage; -- so called in some Baptist churches.
Having no pastor.
An insignificant pastor.
Appropriate to a pastor.
Pastorate.
A highly seasoned cut of smoked beef.
The place where pastry is made.
Fit for pasture.
Grazing ground; grass land used for pasturing; pasture.
To feed on growing grass; to graze.
A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; pasture.
Destitute of pasture.
One who pastures; one who takes cattle to graze. See Agister.
A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie.
In a pat manner.
The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.
A tender to a fleet, formerly used for conveying men, orders, or treasure.
See Pataca.
In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.
Of or pertaining to Patagonia. A native of Patagonia.
A vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon.
A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.
To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like; as, to patch a coat.
To mend by patching; to patch; -- also used figuratively; as, to patch up frayed relations bewteen parties.
A circuit board where circuits are completed and modified by making connections with patchcords.
A conducting cord with a plug at each end, used to make connections between circuit terminals at a patchboard.
Mended, usually clumsily by covering a hole with a patch; as, patched jeans.
One who patches or botches.
Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy.
Unevenness in quality or performance.
The act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it.
Knavishly; deceitfully.
A small shrubby mintlike plant (Pogostemon cablin syn. Pogostemon Patchouli) of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made.
Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly or clumsily composed; a thing patched up.
Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head.
Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.
See Pattee.
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