16. (Card Playing & other games) To decline to take an optional action
when it is one's turn, as to decline to bid, or to bet, or to play a
card; in euchre, to decline to make the trump.
She would not play, yet must not pass.
Prior.
17. In football, hockey, etc., to make a pass; to transfer the ball,
etc., to another player of one's own side. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To bring to pass, To come to pass. See under Bring, and Come. -- To
pass away, to disappear; to die; to vanish. "The heavens shall pass
away." 2 Pet. iii. 10. "I thought to pass away before, but yet alive I
am." Tennyson. -- To pass by, to go near and beyond a certain person or
place; as, he passed by as we stood there. -- To pass into, to change
by a gradual transmission; to blend or unite with. -- To pass on, to
proceed. -- To pass on or upon. (a) To happen to; to come upon; to
affect. "So death passed upon all men." Rom. v. 12. "Provided no
indirect act pass upon our prayers to define them." Jer. Taylor. (b) To
determine concerning; to give judgment or sentence upon. "We may not
pass upon his life." Shak. -- To pass off, to go away; to cease; to
disappear; as, an agitation passes off. -- To pass over, to go from one
side or end to the other; to cross, as a river, road, or bridge.
Pass (?), v. t. 1. In simple, transitive senses; as: (a) To go by,
beyond, over, through, or the like; to proceed from one side to the
other of; as, to pass a house, a stream, a boundary, etc. (b) Hence: To
go from one limit to the other of; to spend; to live through; to have
experience of; to undergo; to suffer. "To pass commodiously this life."
Milton.
She loved me for the dangers I had passed.
Shak.
(c) To go by without noticing; to omit attention to; to take no note
of; to disregard.
Please you that I may pass This doing.
Shak.