Definition of passage

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Passage (v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance..

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Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..
Strangurious :: Strangulation (n.) Inordinate compression or constriction of a tube or part, as of the throat; especially, such as causes a suspension of breathing, of the passage of contents, or of the circulation, as in cases of hernia..
Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road..
Throat :: Throat (n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase..
Chyme :: Chyme (n.) The pulpy mass of semi-digested food in the small intestines just after its passage from the stomach. It is separated in the intestines into chyle and excrement. See Chyle.
Lobby :: Lobby (n.) A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechamber to one only; but this distinction is not carefully preserved..
Vent :: Vent (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Ritornello :: Ritornello (n.) A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude..
Development :: Development (n.) The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization..
Hall :: Hall (n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
Tardo :: Tardo (a.) Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly.
Gut :: Gut (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso..
Hawk :: Hawk (v. i.) To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances..
Tunnel :: Tunnel (n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel..
Labyrinth :: Labyrinth (n.) An edifice or place full of intricate passageways which render it difficult to find the way from the interior to the entrance; as, the Egyptian and Cretan labyrinths..
Tremando :: Tremando (a.) Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance..
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.
Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another..
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To make (a passage) by laborious effort, as in boring; as, to bore one's way through a crowd; to force a narrow and difficult passage through..
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