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Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes. The caduke pleasures of his world. Bp. Fisher.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

A customhouse where transit duties are levied. [China] S. W. Williams.

from a thing in action. -- Chose local, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill. -- Chose transitory, a thing which is movable. Cowell. Blount.

To move or pass from one side to the other, or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.

f the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.

A mark or line [--], in writing or printing, denoting a sudden break, stop, or transition in a sentence, or an abrupt change in its construction, a long or significant pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.…

ily divided into twenty-four hours. It is measured by the interval between two successive transits of a celestial body over the same meridian, and takes a specific name from that of the body. Thus, if this is the sun, the day (the interval between two successive transits of the sun's center over the same meridian) is c…

, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of blood. (b) A quic…

an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

The passing off from the sun's disk of an inferior planet, in a transit.

entle Delia beckons from the plain, Then, hid in shades, eludes he eager swain. Pope. The transition from fetichism to polytheism seems a gradual process of which the stages elude close definition. Tylor.

c.; a mart or place where merchandise is deposited; as, an entrepôt for shipping goods in transit.

ge number of observation, between the instant when an observer notes a phenomenon, as the transit of a star, and the assumed instant of its actual occurrence; or, relatively, the difference between these instants as noted by two observers. It is usually only a fraction of a second; -- sometimes applied loosely to diffe…

In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

which moves, stirs, or induces action; a motive. The cares and excitements of a season of transition and struggle. Talfowrd.

Pertaining to that relation which is proper when the act, as of a transitive verb, is not merely received by an object, but produces some change in the object, as when we say, He made the water wine. Sometimes the idea of activity in a verb or adjective involves in it a reference to an effect, in the way of causality,…

Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow.

y manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive. [He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. Shak. Flee fornication. 1 Cor. vi. 18. So fled his enemies my warlike father. Shak.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.