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Passage; means of approach or access. I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. John x. 9.

The passage of a door; entrance way into a house or a room.

Anything nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.

Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.

The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.

archbishop. Mozley & W. -- Duplex telegraphy, a system of telegraphy for sending two messages over the same wire simultaneously. -- Duplex watch, one with a duplex escapement.

The act of expiring; passage from life to death; loss of life.

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

Strong attachment to ecclesiastical usages, forms, etc.

g with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council. [Written also .] Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council.

gical book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes.

e on edge, to be eager, impatient, or anxious. -- To set the teeth on edge, to cause a disagreeable tingling sensation in the teeth, as by bringing acids into contact with them. Bacon.

Of, Pertaining to, or produced by, magnetism which is developed by the passage of an electric current. Electro-magnetic engine, an engine in which the motive force is electro-magnetism. -- Electro-magnetic theory of light (Physics), a theory of light which makes it consist in the rapid alternation of transient electri…

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

he art or science of constructing or using the electric telegraph; the transmission of messages by means of the electric telegraph.

The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist. S. Davidson.