Passenger (n.) A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
Passenger (n.) A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.
Passe partout (n.) That by which one can pass anywhere; a safe-conduct.
Passe partout (n.) A master key; a latchkey.
Passe partout (n.) A light picture frame or mat of cardboard, wood, or the like, usually put between the picture and the glass, and sometimes serving for several pictures.
Passer (n.) One who passes; a passenger.
Passer-by (n.) One who goes by; a passer.
Passeres (n. pl.) 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.
Passeriform (a.) Like or belonging to the Passeres.
Passerine (a.) Of or pertaining to the Passeres.
Passerine (n.) One of the Passeres.
Passibility (n.) The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
Passible (a.) Susceptible of feeling or suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
Passibleness (n.) Passibility.
Passiflora (n.) A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreae, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
Passim (adv.) Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem.
Passing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
Passing (a.) Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
Passing (a.) Exceeding; surpassing, eminent.
Passing (adv.) Exceedingly; excessively; surpassingly; as, passing fair; passing strange.
Passingly (adv.) Exceedingly.
Passion (n.) A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ between the time of the last supper and his death, esp. in the garden upon the cross.
Passion (n.) The state of being acted upon; subjection to an external agent or influence; a passive condition; -- opposed to action.
Passion (n.) Capacity of being affected by external agents; susceptibility of impressions from external agents.
Passion (n.) The state of the mind when it is powerfully acted upon and influenced by something external to itself; the state of any particular faculty which, under such conditions, becomes extremely sensitive or uncontrollably excited; any emotion or sentiment (specifically, love or anger) in a state of abnormal or controlling activity; an extreme or inordinate desire; also, the capacity or susceptibility of being so affected; as, to be in a passion; the passions of love, hate, jealously, wrath, ambition, avarice, fear, etc.; a passion for war, or for drink; an orator should have passion as well as rhetorical skill.
Passion (n.) Disorder of the mind; madness.
Passion (n.) Passion week. See Passion week, below.
Passioned (imp. & p. p.) of Passion
Passioning (p. pr & vb. n.) of Passion
Passion (v. t.) To give a passionate character to.
Passion (v. i.) To suffer pain or sorrow; to experience a passion; to be extremely agitated.
Passional (a.) Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions.
Passional (n.) A passionary.
Passionary (n.) A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs.
Passionate (a.) Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature.
Passionate (a.) Characterized by passion; expressing passion; ardent in feeling or desire; vehement; warm; as, a passionate friendship.
Passionate (a.) Suffering; sorrowful.
Passionate (v. i.) To affect with passion; to impassion.
Passionate (v. i.) To express feelingly or sorrowfully.
Passionately (adv.) In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently.
Passionately (adv.) Angrily; irascibly.
Passionateness (n.) The state or quality of being passionate.
Passionist (n.) 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.
Passionless (a.) Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
Passiontide (n.) The last fortnight of Lent.
Passive (a.) Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving impressions or influences; as, they were passive spectators, not actors in the scene.
Passive (a.) Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient; not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive submission.
Passive (a.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as, red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
Passive (a.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of reaction in the affected tissues.
Passively (adv.) In a passive manner; inertly; unresistingly.
Passively (adv.) As a passive verb; in the passive voice.
Passiveness (n.) The quality or state of being passive; unresisting submission.
Passivity (n.) Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
Passivity (n.) The tendency of a body to remain in a given state, either of motion or rest, till disturbed by another body; inertia.
Passivity (n.) The quality or condition of any substance which has no inclination to chemical activity; inactivity.
Pass-key (n.) A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.
Passless (a.) Having no pass; impassable.
Passmen (pl. ) of Passman
Passman (n.) One who passes for a degree, without honors. See Classman, 2.
Passover (n.) 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.
Passover (n.) The sacrifice offered at the feast of the passover; the paschal lamb.
Pass-parole (n.) An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.
Passport (n.) 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.
Passport (n.) A document carried by neutral merchant vessels in time of war, to certify their nationality and protect them from belligerents; a sea letter.
Passport (n.) A license granted in time of war for the removal of persons and effects from a hostile country; a safe-conduct.
Passport (n.) Figuratively: Anything which secures advancement and general acceptance.
Passus (pl. ) of Passus
Passuses (pl. ) of Passus
Passus (n.) A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
Password (n.) A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign.
Passymeasure (n.) See Paspy.
Past (v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.
Past (n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.
Past (prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.
Past (prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
Past (prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.
Past (adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.
Paste (n.) A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.
Paste (n.) Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.
Paste (n.) A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
Paste (n.) A highly refractive vitreous composition, variously colored, used in making imitations of precious stones or gems. See Strass.
Paste (n.) A soft confection made of the inspissated juice of fruit, licorice, or the like, with sugar, etc.
Paste (n.) The mineral substance in which other minerals are imbedded.
Pasted (imp. & p. p.) of Paste
Pasting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Paste
Paste (v. t.) To unite with paste; to fasten or join by means of paste.
Pasteboard (n.) 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.
Pasteboard (n.) A board on which pastry dough is rolled; a molding board.
Pastel (n.) A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
Pastel (n.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.
Paster (n.) One who pastes; as, a paster in a government department.
Paster (n.) A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.
Pastern (n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.
Pastern (n.) A shackle for horses while pasturing.
Pastern (n.) A patten.
Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
Pasteurism (n.) Pasteurization.
Pasteurization (n.) 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 germs or ferments.
Pasteurize (v. t.) To subject to pasteurization.
Pasteurize (v. t.) To treat by pasteurism.