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A short intermediate symphony, or instrumental passage, in the course of a vocal piece; an interlude.

A duty paid to the crown for the passage of vessels on certain rivers.

A place where one may ride; an open way or public passage for vehicles, persons, and animals; a track for travel, forming a means of communication between one city, town, or place, and another. The most villainous house in all the London road. Shak.

To render (air or other gas) conducting by the passage of Röntgen rays.

The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of an underground passage. Raymond.

unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated. -- To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room. Make room, and let him stand before our face. Shak.

A form of melody in which a phrase or passage is successively repeated, each time a step or half step higher; a melodic sequence.

A smoothly running passage of short notes (as semiquavers, or sixteenths) uniformly grouped, sung upon one long syllable, as in Handel's oratorios.

A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively. in a rut.

That which gives a safe, passage; either

A passage by a sailing vessel; a journey or excursion upon the water.

steemed but a sally of youth. Sir H. Wotton. Sally port. (a) (Fort.) A postern gate, or a passage underground, from the inner to the outer works, to afford free egress for troops in a sortie. (b) (Naval) A large port on each quarter of a fireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large po…

An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria. Rockstro.

One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer. These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. Sir W. Temple. A master were lauded and scolists shent. R. Browning.

A passage from the Bible;; a text. The devil can eite Scripture for his purpose. Shak. Hanging by the twined thread of one doubtful Scripture. Milton.

he coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying "Between Scylla and Charybdis," signifying a great peril on either hand.

To render suitable or appropriate; to prepare; to fit. He is fit and seasoned for his passage. Shak.

below the best highest; inferior; second- rate; as, a second-class house; a second-class passage.

sing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the passage of the primary current. -- Secondary evidence, that which is admitted upon failure to obtain the primary or best evidence. -- Secondary fever (Med.), a fever coming on in a disease after the subsidence of the fever with…

A half chorus; a passage to be sung by a selected portion of the voices, as the female voices only, in contrast with the full choir.