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Maestoso :: Maestoso (a. & adv.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

Rut :: Rut (n.) A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

Hall :: Hall (n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.

Blockade :: Blockade (v. t.) An obstruction to passage.

Arterialization :: Arterialization (n.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aeration and hematosis..

Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another..

Misurato :: Misurato (a.) Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

Throat :: Throat (n.) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces..

Stenostome :: Stenosis (n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic..

Slip :: Slip (n.) A narrow passage between buildings.

Polyspermy :: Polyspermy (n.) Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoon into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum..

Cul-de-sac :: Cul-de-sac (n.) A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap..

Keynote :: Keynote (n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone..

Flue :: Flue (n.) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hot gases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from a tube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues are called fire tubes or simply tubes.

Distort :: Distort (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning..

Skip :: Skip (n.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

Semichorus :: Semichorus (n.) A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir..

Vivace :: Vivace (a. & adv.) Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

Fauces :: Fauces (n.pl.) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two membranous folds, called the pillars of the fauces, inclose the tonsils..

Transcension :: Transcension (n.) The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over..

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