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A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

Impassable. E. A. Freeman. -- Un*pass"a*ble*ness, n. Evelyn.

Not passionate; dispassionate. -- Un*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.

To cause to be no longer pastor; to deprive of pastorship. [R.] Fuller.

been fabulously reported that the atmosphere about it is deleterious. Called also bohun upas.

A caustic application made up of equal parts of caustic potash and quicklime; -- called also Vienna caustic.

See Army organization, above.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

ions of intellect." Lingard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.

An adjective suffix now usually in a passive sense; able to be; fit to be; expressing capacity or worthiness in a passive sense; as, movable, able to be moved; amendable, able to be amended; blamable, fit to be blamed; salable.

and adv. Above. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Aboon the pass of Bally-Brough. Sir W. Scott. The ceiling fair that rose aboon. J. R. Drake.

Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in measure or degree than; as, things above comprehension; above mean actions; conduct above reproach. "Thy worth . . . is actions above my gifts." Marlowe. I saw in the way a light from heaven above the brightness of the sun. Acts xxxvi.…

A narrow pass or defile; a break in a mesa; the mouth of a cañon. [Southwestern U. S.]

That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly. [Obs.] What abridgment have you for this evening What mask What music Shak.

Inattentive to what is passing; absent-minded; preoccupied; as, an absent air. What is commonly called an absent man is commonly either a very weak or a very affected man. Chesterfield.

o heat, light, and electricity are absorbed or taken up in the substances into which they pass. Nichol. p. 8

s self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak.

ood and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight.

The means, place, or way by which a thing may be approached; passage way; as, the access is by a neck of land. "All access was thronged." Milton.