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An African weaver bird (Textor alector).

To breathe forth quickly or in a labored manner; to gasp out. There is a cavern where my spirit Was panted forth in anguish. Shelley.

in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.

r affirmative) Some men are wise; (particular negative) Some men are not wise. Particular average. See under Average. -- Particular Baptist, one of a branch of the Baptist denomination the members of which hold the doctrine of a particular or individual election and reprobation. -- Particular lien (Law), a lien, or a…

Capable of being passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

ing a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.

pursuit, or object of taste -- a kind of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan. The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When states…

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.

A paver.

One who paves; a paver.

Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] "A pendulous state of mind." Atterbury.

er; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon.

The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

t; a petty prince. Denham. Like a petty god I walked about, admired of all. Milton. Petty averages. See under Average. -- Petty cash, money expended or received in small items or amounts. -- Petty officer, a subofficer in the navy, as a gunner, etc., corresponding to a noncommissionned officer in the army.…

ducing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.

ick Master Slender's purse Shak. He picks clean teeth, and, busy as he seems With an old tavern quill, is hungry yet. Cowper.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.