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One whose chief interest is in the past; one who regards the past with most pleasure or favor.

Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.

The act of passing, or going past; the state of being past. Bp. Hall.

Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses, as certain verbs.

The quality or state of being past. Bentley. Lowell.

Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] Glanvill.

The act of carrying past or beyond. [R.] Abp. Potter.

ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he has the opportunity of proving his character, and becoming qualified for a happier state. No [view of human life] seems so reasonable as that which regards…

The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddling furnace to be hammered or rolled.

kind of light pastry. (c) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

sive thoughts that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. J. Martineau.

A kind of thick paste or cement compounded of whiting, or soft carbonate of lime, and linseed oil, when applied beaten or kneaded to the consistence of dough, -- used in fastening glass in sashes, stopping crevices, and for similar purposes. Putty powder, an oxide of tin, or of tin and lead in various proportions, much…

"Out of question, 't is Maria's hand." Shak. -- Out of the question. See under Out. -- Past question, beyond question; certainly; undoubtedly; unquestionably. -- Previous question, a question put to a parliamentary assembly upon the motion of a member, in order to ascertain whether it is the will of the body to vot…

Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he. "Let me not live, quoth he." Shak.

fect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread. Miss Liddy can dance a jig, and raise paste. Spectator.

om for excursion; especially, a region of country in which cattle or sheep may wander and pasture.

awrence. Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Moore.

An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse.

as his chiefest end; for the rational, the natural, and mathematics . . . were but simple pastimes in comparison of the other. Sir T. North.

owett. We can not realize it in thought, that the object . . . had really no being at any past moment. Sir W. Hamilton.