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Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

n the common fields are open to all kinds of stock. [Prov.Eng.] Halliwell. [Written also opentide.]

The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.

One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.

The worship of serpents.

One versed in the natural history of serpents.

That part of natural history which treats of the ophidians, or serpents.

Divination by serpents, as by their manner of eating, or by their coils.

Having the form of a serpent.

Feeding on serpents; -- said of certain birds and reptiles.

Serpent worship or the use of serpents as magical agencies.

Of or pertaining to a serpent. [Obs.]

A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, delineated as a man holding a serpent in his hands; -- called also Serpentarius.

A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

also called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.

he same, or on a reduced or an enlarged, scale. [Written also pantagraph, and incorrectly pentagraph.] Skew pantograph, a kind of pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.

tion. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.

To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly. Now the time is far passed. Mark vi. 35

rtaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." Milton. Past master. See under Master.

Repentance. [Obs.] Wyclif (Luke xv. 7).