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Divination by means of a child's navel, to learn how many children the mother may have. Crabb.

A name of the Hesychasts, from their habit of gazing upon the navel.

The navel.

The operation of dividing the navel-string.

One of the ridges of sand or gravel found in Sweden, etc., supposed by some to be of marine origin, but probably formed by subglacial waters. The osar are similar to the kames of Scotland and the eschars of Ireland. See Eschar.

A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc. Wilhelm.

To take long, loose stitches over (the raw edges of a seam) to prevent raveling.

To travel over. [R.] Shak.

One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland.

ssively; to exhaust. Then dozed a while herself, but overtoiled By that day's grief and travel. Tennyson.

To travel upon foot; to tread. [Obs.] Padding the streets for half a crown. Somerville.

Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. T. Staveley.

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

odies. Shak. To part a cable (Naut.), to break it. -- To part company, to separate, as travelers or companions.

rangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on.

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.

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.

A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc. Passenger falcon (Zoöl.), a migratory hawk. Ainsworth. -- Passenger pigeon (Zoöl.), the common wild pigeon of North America (Ectopistes migratorius), so called on account of its extensive migrations.

Passenger miles collectively; the total number of miles traveled by passengers on a railroad during a given period.

ven 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. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.