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and safe transportation of merchandise or parcels; also, a railway train for transporting passengers or goods with speed and punctuality.

The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. A. Drummond.

-driven steel wheel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

A vessel in which passengers and goods are conveyed over narrow waters; a ferryboat; a wherry.

A vessel for conveying passengers, merchandise, etc., across streams and other narrow waters.

-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended for passengers who pay the highest regular rate; -- distinguished from a second-class car.

A kind of passenger boat formerly used on canals.

A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.

ly propelled by one or two oarsmen who stand facing the prow, or by poling. A gondola for passengers has a small open cabin amidships, for their protection against the sun or rain. A sumptuary law of Venice required that gondolas should be painted black, and they are customarily so painted now.

A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. The hoy went to London every week. Cowper.

g within; included or inclosed in anything; contained; interior; internal; as, the inside passengers of a stagecoach; inside decoration. Kissing with inside lip. Shak.

jaunting car. Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

gh-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

A boy or man that carried a link or torch to light passengers.

A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

communicate motion to the wheels and thus propel the carriage, -- used to convey goods or passengers, or to draw wagons, railroad cars, etc. See Illustration in Appendix. Consolidation locomotive, a locomotive having four pairs of connected drivers. -- Locomotive car, a locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle; a…

A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

le number and a fraction taken together. -- Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. -- Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.