Pass boat (Naut.), a punt, or similar boat. -- Pass book. (a) A book in
which a trader enters articles bought on credit, and then passes or
sends it to the purchaser. (b) See Bank book. -- Pass box (Mil.), a
wooden or metallic box, used to carry cartridges from the service
magazine to the piece. -- Pass check, a ticket of admission to a place
of entertainment, or of readmission for one who goes away in
expectation of returning.
Pass"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. passable.] 1. Capable of being passed,
traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads
are not passable; the stream is passablein boats.
His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a
throughfare for steel.
Shak.
2. Capable of being freely circulated or disseminated; acceptable;
generally receivable; current.
With men as with false money -- one piece is more or less passable
than another.
L'Estrange.
Could they have made this slander passable.
Collier.
3. Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable;
admissable; moderate; mediocre.
My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is
absent.
Dryden.
Pass"a*ble*ness, n. The quality of being passable.
Pass"a*bly, adv. Tolerably; moderately.
{ ||Pas`sa*ca*glia (?), ||Pas`sa*ca*glio (?), } n. [Sp. pasacalle a
certain tune on the guitar, prop., a tune played in passing through the
streets.] (Mus.) An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow
three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a
chaconne.
{ Pas*sade" (?), Pas*sa"do (?), } n. [F. passade; cf. Sp. pasada. See
Pass, v. i.] 1. (Fencing) A pass or thrust. Shak.
2. (Man.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same
spot of ground.
Pas"sage (?), n. [F. passage. See Pass, v. i.] 1. The act of passing;
transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a
going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a
carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the
passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
What! are my doors opposed against my passage!
Shak.
2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car,
or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
The ship in which he had taken passage.
Macaulay.