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rs passengers, baggage, etc., for conveyance, as by railway or steamship, or who sells passage tickets at a booking office.

An office where passage tickets are sold. [Eng.]

Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.

together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage.

owerful jaws, by means whereof the insect can bore, as with a centerbit, a cylindrical passage through the most solid wood. T. W. Harris.

ngle person. -- Rotten borough, a name given to any borough which, at the time of the passage of the Reform Bill of 1832, contained but few voters, yet retained the privilege of sending a member to Parliament.

An ancient species of divination by means of plants, esp. sage and fig leaves.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Having the shape of a sausage. Henslow.

A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor; -- found at Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, England. It is of geological age of the oölite, and not of the true coal era.

The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

A warrant from the government, granting a privilege, title, or dignity. [French usage].

erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.

and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

buckler. See Christ's thorn. -- Riding buckler (Naut.), a buckler with a hole for the passage of a cable.

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to ha…

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

A by-passage, for a pipe, or other channel, to divert circulation from the usual course.

A message sent by a submarine telegraphic cable.