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Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions.

A definite position or passage of a document. The place of the scripture which he read was this. Acts viii. 32.

Fullness of sperm, or seed; the passage of more than one spermatozoön into the vitellus in the impregnation of the ovum.

s, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops.

A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

ores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton.

A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. [Archaic] Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered. Shak. Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing. Milton.

corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.

to drive into or through a building. It is common to have the entrance door open upon the passage of the porte-cochère. Also, a porch over a driveway before an entrance door.

A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks. Mahan.

A short homily or commentary on a passage of Scripture; as, the first postils were composed by order of Charlemagne.

A voter in certain boroughs of England, where, before the passage of the reform bill of 1832, the qualification for suffrage was to have boiled (walloped) his own pot in the parish for six months.

The particular position of the child during labor relatively to the passage though which it is to be brought forth; -- specifically designated by the part which first appears at the mouth of the uterus; as, a breech presentation. Presentation copy, a copy of a book, engraving, etc., presented to some one by the author…

ompass card at the same time. -- Prismatic spectrum (Opt.), the spectrum produced by the passage of light through a prism.

ee Nuisance. -- Private soldier. See Private, n., 5. -- Private way, a right of private passage over another man's ground. Kent.

Course; passage; lapse or process of time. I hope, in a short progression, you will be wholly immerged in the delices and joys of religion. Evelyn.

in the side of a vacuum pan, for testing the consistency of the sirup. -- Proof text, a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine. proof coin or proof, a coin which has been specially struck, to produce the finest specimen of its type.

The passage between the iter and optocoele in the brain. B. G. Wilder.

The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.