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incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. Foster.

lanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.

A collection of flowers of literature, that is, beautiful passages from authors; a collection of poems or epigrams; -- particularly applied to a collection of ancient Greek epigrams.

A contradiction between any words or passages in an author. Sir W. Hamilton.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

onical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Relating to an issue of fulfillment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay.

A canal or passage; as, the aqueduct of Sylvius, a channel connecting the third and fourth ventricles of the brain.

An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

on. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

A way or passage under an arch.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

ailroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

e time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Three asterisks placed in this manner, *, to direct attention to a particular passage.

A small dam to prevent free passage of water in an adit or level.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.