Definition of passage

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Passage (v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time..

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Blind :: Blind (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing..
Klicket :: Klicket (n.) A small postern or gate in a palisade, for the passage of sallying parties..
Turnpike :: Turnpike (n.) A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1..
Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..
Galvanocautery :: Galvanocautery (n.) Cautery effected by a knife or needle heated by the passage of a galvanic current.
Digest :: Digest (v. t.) To separate (the food) in its passage through the alimentary canal into the nutritive and nonnutritive elements; to prepare, by the action of the digestive juices, for conversion into blood; to convert into chyme..
Roulade :: Roulade (n.) A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios..
Strode :: Strid (n.) A narrow passage between precipitous rocks or banks, which looks as if it might be crossed at a stride..
Manway :: Manway (n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through..
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions..
Choke :: Choke (v. t.) To obstruct by filling up or clogging any passage; to block up.
Maze :: Maze (n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth..
Cough :: Cough (v. i.) To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner..
Comment :: Comment (v. i.) To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon..
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.
Hydronephrosis :: Hydronephrosis (n.) An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages..
Colliquation :: Colliquation (n.) A processive wasting or melting away of the solid parts of the animal system with copious excretions of liquids by one or more passages.
Gut :: Gut (n.) A narrow passage of water; as, the Gut of Canso..
Thrombus :: Thrombus (n.) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time..
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