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to words, to be performed by the human voice. -- Vocal tube (Anat.), the part of the air passages above the inferior ligaments of the larynx, including the passages through the nose and mouth.

A vocal, or sometimes a whispered, sound modified by resonance in the oral passage, the peculiar resonance in each case giving to each several vowel its distinctive character or quality as a sound of speech; -- distinguished from a consonant in that the latter, whether made with or without vocality, derives its charact…

Formerly, a passage either by sea or land; a journey, in general; but not chiefly limited to a passing by sea or water from one place, port, or country, to another; especially, a passing or journey by water to a distant place or country. I love a sea voyage and a blustering tempest. J. Fletcher. So steers the prudent c…

A boat for passage. Ainsworth.

A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes. Burrill.

, or along, which one passes or processes; opportunity or room to pass; place of passing; passage; road, street, track, or path of any kind; as, they built a way to the mine. "To find the way to heaven." Shak. I shall him seek by way and eke by street. Chaucer. The way seems difficult, and steep to scale. Milton. The s…

The act of journeying; travel; passage. [Obs.] Holland.

A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of water.

A narrow port or passage in the rink or course, flanked by the stones of previous players.

The passage for the breath from the larynx to the lungs; the trachea; the weasand. See Illust. under Lung.

Passage by flying; flight; as, to take wing. Light thickens; and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

To cause to ferment, as liquor. To work a passage (Naut.), to pay for a passage by doing work. -- To work double tides (Naut.), to perform the labor of three days in two; -- a phrase which alludes to a practice of working by the night tide as well as by the day. -- To work in, to insert, introduce, mingle, or interwe…

The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.

A chasm, mouth, or passageway. [R.] Now gape the graves, and trough their yawns let loose Imprisoned spirits. Marston.

To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.

A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.