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Close, so as not to admit the passage of a liquid or other fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water- tight; air-tight.

often with out. [R.] Places well toiled and husbanded. Holland. [I] toiled out my uncouth passage. Milton.

; the entirety; as, the totalityof human knowledge. Buckle. The totality of a sentence or passage. Coleridge.

A track; a trail; a way; a path; also, passage; travel; resort. [Obs.] A postern with a blind wicket there was, A common trade to pass through Priam's house. Surrey. Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade. Spenser. Or, I'll be buried in the king's highway, Some way of common trade, where subjects' feet May hourl…

A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Permitting the passage of sound. [R.] Lowell.

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over. [Obs.] Chapman.

A rambling or ramble; a passage over bounds; an excursion. [Obs.] Howell.

The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

The act of passing; passage through or over. In France you are now . . . in the transit from one form of government to another. Burke.

Passage from one place or state to another; charge; as, the transition of the weather from hot to cold. There is no death, what seems so is transition. Longfellow.

Having the power of making a transit, or passage. [R.] Bacon.

The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage or departure.

Admitting the passage of light; open; porous; as, a transparent veil. Dryden.

, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to prevent the passage of an enemy across a region. [Sp. Amer.]

The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel. And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw. Spenser.

casion of a greater good, by turning them to advantage in this world. Tillotson. When the passage is open, land will be turned most to cattle; when shut, to sheep. Sir W. Temple.