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To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.

To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

To exceed in passion.

Overstocked, or overgrown, or covered, with grass. [Obs.] Spenser.

To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

Passionate to excess. -- O"ver*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.

An under bed or mattress of straw. [Written also palliasse.]

See Paillasse.

A valuable pasture grass (Panicum barbinode) introduced into the Southern United States from Brazil.

A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus.

Of or pertaining to Parnassus.

Same as Parnassian.

o Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]

with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind or manner of motion; as, to pass on, by, out, in, etc.; to pass swiftly, directly, smoothly, etc.; to pass to the rear, under the yoke, over the bridge, across the field, beyond the border, etc. "But now pass over [i.e., pass on]." Chaucer. On high behests hi…

A key for opening more locks than one; a master key.

An order passed from front to rear by word of mouth.

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.

The quality of being passable.

Tolerably; moderately.

ld Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.