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  • English Word Pass Definition To cause to obtain entrance, admission, or conveyance; as, to pass a person into a theater, or over a railroad.
  • English Word Pass Definition To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.
  • English Word Pass Definition To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
  • English Word Pass Definition To make, as a thrust, punto, etc.
  • English Word Pass Definition 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.
  • English Word Pass Definition A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
  • English Word Pass Definition A movement of the hand over or along anything; the manipulation of a mesmerist.
  • English Word Pass Definition A single passage of a bar, rail, sheet, etc., between the rolls.
  • English Word Pass Definition State of things; condition; predicament.
  • English Word Pass Definition Permission or license to pass, or to go and come; a psssport; a ticket permitting free transit or admission; as, a railroad or theater pass; a military pass.
  • English Word Pass Definition Fig.: a thrust; a sally of wit.
  • English Word Pass Definition Estimation; character.
  • English Word Pass Definition A part; a division.
  • English Word Pass-key Definition A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
  • English Word Pass-parole Definition An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.
  • English Word Passable Definition Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
  • English Word Passable Definition Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable; generally receivable; current.
  • English Word Passable Definition Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre.
  • English Word Passableness Definition The quality of being passable.
  • English Word Passably Definition Tolerably; moderately.
  • English Word Passacaglia Definition Alt. of Passacaglio
  • English Word Passacaglio Definition An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.
  • English Word Passade Definition Alt. of Passado
  • English Word Passado Definition A pass or thrust.
  • English Word Passado Definition A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.
  • English Word Passage Definition 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.
  • English Word Passage Definition Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
  • English Word Passage Definition Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
  • English Word Passage Definition Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
  • English Word Passage Definition Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.